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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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The Music Master, a play written by Charles Klein opened on Broadway to rave reviews. The three-act comedy-drama was among the first to offer sets of postcards as theater souvenirs. The world-famous David Warfield played the title role for two decades. It is a tale of music and passion and later became a film with the same name.

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