April 30, 2026
Tag: Ruth Perkins Safford
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Tragedy of Being Forgotten
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It is happening more often these days. We who work at Postcard History are discovering that a postcard may be the last remnant of the scene on the card. Homes, schools, churches, public buildings like city halls, libraries, court houses; they are all gone. New has replaced the old. Urban renewal is the catch phrase;…
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October 17, 2020 1 Comment
If you were a tourist on the Island of Hawai’i in the first two decades of the 20th century and you were among those permitted a walk on Kilauea’s caldera, you could do what the tourists on the postcard above are doing. You could scorch the postcards you planned to send home in the molten lava […]