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  • Red Cross Postcards

    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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Did you ever wish you could mail yourself to a sunny Caribbean island? Well, once you could, but no longer. Today postal regulations prohibit mailing any odd-shaped postcard. These cards were mailed before the rules were changed.

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