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  • Poster Postcards Part XThe US Navy Visits Australia

    Poster Postcards Part 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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Bob Teevan
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It is easy to imagine that cards printed around the world would be for sale around the world – Not So! Early in the first decade of the 20th century, a German artist named Hans Stövhaus painted a series of “Airship” pictures. Tuck & Sons turned his pictures into postcards for sale in Germany and only in Germany.

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