December 7, 2025
Tag: pioneer postcards
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Livermore and Knight, Pioneer Postcard Publishers
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Livermore & Knight, a Providence, Rhode Island printing and engraving company came early to the world of postcards. Today, cards from that era are known as pioneers. There are many who collect these early cards, simply because they were the first available, but there are other reason too. They are beautiful, cleverly made and very…
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October 28, 2021 11 Comments
Hires Root Beer, once the dominant carbonated drink in America, cannot be found any more. The story of how it came to be, and flourish is a proud one because Charles Hires had the soul of an advertising man. He explained his philosophy by saying that “doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.”