September 21, 2020

Tag: Paris

Postcards Define the Indescribable

Kaya Fellcheck

Postcards Define the Indescribable

Imagine yourself a tourist in Paris in 1907. You are touring the world’s most vibrant city, but you feel an obligation to send word home to your loved-ones that you are safe and that you have seem some of the most glorious artwork ever

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An Unassuming Postcard has Historical Significance

Bob Toal

An Unassuming Postcard

has Historical Significance

A small package arrived containing a CD, a note and several vintage postcards. The note read: “Bob, Found these today in a cigar box of Uncle Lowell’s. The dog one with writing on the back was handed to him by a Parisian

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Galerie Chevalier, London, Paris, Rome

It isn’t déjà vu, but I guess it’s close.

Ray Hahn

It isn’t déjà vu,
but I guess it’s close.

Until I found this postcard, I knew nothing about the Chevalier Gallery in Paris.

Galerie Chevalier is a carpet store. Well maybe a bit more than a carpet store. Chevalier has been in business since the late 1700s. They

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The Bird Charmer at Tuileries Gardens

Ray Hahn

The Bird Charmer

at Tuileries Gardens

Being a bird charmer is not a unique profession, but if you live in Paris, there is a much greater chance that you could actually make a living charming mankind’s feathered friends.

In the media of the last 150 years, chronicling bird

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