April 25, 2024
Tag: Poster Postcards
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Part III – Fresh Air for the Children
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[elementor-template id=”3378″] Poster Postcards Part III Fresh Air for the Children Translation Long live clean air and space Thanks to the French Red Cross hundreds of children are leaving the cities The British author, Kipling, wrote something to the effect that scents are stronger than sights and sounds to make the heart strings crack. This…
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Posters IV Arthur Wragg
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[elementor-template id=”3378″] Posters IV Arthur Wragg Arthur Wragg died in 1976 at age 73. His life was lived in a totally slapdash fashion. He possessed no organizational skills. He was a troubled youth, having been born in a suburb of Manchester, England on January 3, 1903, then raised in Harrogate with his older sister, Amy.…
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Poster Series X – The US Navy Visits Australia
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U. S. Fleet Visits Australia The year before President Theodore Roosevelt left office, he dispatched the U. S. Navy’s Atlantic Fleet on an around the world tour. Twenty-eight ships and 14,000 men left port in Hampton Ponds, Virginia for South America, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Malaya, and back home through Suez and the Straits of Gibraltar. One of the…
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Cocktails and afterwork cocktail parties are a routine for many in the world of big business. This is a great tale of a meeting that turned into a big-dollar sale for a postcard collector who made a lifelong friend. He still drinks Scotch & Soda, but many fewer since he is now retired and lives in Texas.