December 15, 2025
Tag: red cross postcards
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Red Cross Postcards
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The Red Cross was founded by Henri Dunant, who was present at the Battle of Solferino in 1859, at which 40,000 men were killed or wounded. Dunant spent the next five years trying to get support for his plan and succeeded in convoking a convention of interested persons in Geneva, Switzerland in 1864. After the…
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July 1, 2023 4 Comments
The masses of the world cannot know the joy of making music, which by every measure is tragic. If, however, your family owned a violin you may have had half-a-chance to play, but it would have required endless hours of practice. For those who did play an instrument, postcards became a way to tell the world.