Postcard History

October 26, 2026

Tag: Polio epidemic 1950

  • The Lost Summer with Sandra Cobb

    The Lost Summer with Sandra Cobb

    Editor’s Staff

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    In the early spring of 1950 signs like this one started to appear in the front windows or on the front doors of homes across America. This one from Connecticut and ones like it appeared as warnings that a quarantine was in affect designed to prevent the spread of polio. Postcard History’s guest contributor, Sandy…

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Past Article

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July 17, 2022 3 Comments
There is nothing really curious about brothers in military service together, but when both brothers later became the King of England, it becomes a true Postcard History story. We are reminded of these facts by this patriotic postcard from the Globe Art Publications Company on Fleet Street (newspaper alley) in London.

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