March 12, 2026
Tag: rare postcards
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The Mansfield Bar
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The press said Jayne Mansfield was decapitated when her car rear-ended a semi. It wasn’t true, but a movement arose to put safety bars on the rear of every truck. And they’re called . . .
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Poster Postcards Part VIII
I Tre Conti
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One of the most fascinating features of posters is how they communicate a great deal of information in very few words. The featured card for this episode of In A Few Words is to be a true test of this principle of communications. The card has only three words on it, repeated in translation to six because
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October 10, 2021 2 Comments
As was stated in Odds and Ends, Part 1, it is always busy here at the editor’s desk of Postcard History, soon after we publish an article a new postcard often appears that fulfills all the requirements of a good illustration. Here are a few more odds and ends cards that were recently found that should have gone with already published articles – If We Had Only Known. All comments welcome.