January 15, 2025
Tag: real photo postcards
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Identifying Real Photo Postcards Using Crowdsourcing
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Crowdsourcing. Yes, I too thought of it as two words, but in 2006 Merriam-Webster defined crowdsourcing as a noun meaning the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Read about how a…
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A Social History of the Bicycle as Depicted on Real Photo Post Cards
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Which came first, the postcard or the bicycle? It does not matter for it seems like they were made for each other. Bicycles on real-photo postcards has been a popular topic for over forty years. Postcard History welcomes, Gerry Biron, a new contributor who seems to have his handlebars pointed where bicycles join postcards.
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September 29, 2022 3 Comments
Opera is a life experience defined by one word – patience! At the premiere of Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungen cycle in August 1876 the ticket holders at the Bayreuth Festival witnessed the greatest accomplishment in opera history. In total, it took 16 hours