December 15, 2025
Tag: Postcard Artist
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Hamilton King
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Although many collectors know his work, very few know his name. Hamilton King would have been successful in any kind of work, but he chose to be an artist. The art world that bookended the last and first decades of the 19th and 20th centuries levied a harsh reality on men like Hamilton King. That world had…
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Tragedy of Being Forgotten
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It is happening more often these days. We who work at Postcard History are discovering that a postcard may be the last remnant of the scene on the card. Homes, schools, churches, public buildings like city halls, libraries, court houses; they are all gone. New has replaced the old. Urban renewal is the catch phrase;…
Past Article
October 9, 2025 1 Comment
“Casey At the Bat” has become the single most famous baseball poem ever written. It has been around long enough for the copyright to expire, but it is still popular, and the only thing left to happen is for the 1912 illustrations by D. S. Groesbeck to be made into postcards.