August 24, 2026
Tag: posters
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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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March 13, 2022 5 Comments
Collectors of period costume postcards will enjoy the far-reaching connections drawn from these sequentially numbered postcards of two ordinary people holding two ordinary fans. He holds his fan open for the world to see; she keeps hers folded – there may be discretions hidden within.