February 18, 2025
Tag: scottish clans
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The Tartan and Tuck’s Scottish Clans Postcards
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If your name is Campbell, Gordon, Fraser or any one of more than forty Scottish Clan names, you may find your family’s tartan (Please, don’t call it plaid.) on a Tuck Postcard. Between 1908 and 1912 Tuck & Sons published 42 different cards in seven sets of six cards each. If you are your family’s…
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January 18, 2024 4 Comments
No farmer can work without seeds! When farmers and their families moved to Kansas in the 1870s, their struggle was a tough-row-to-hoe, until Hiram W. Buckbee started selling seeds from his Illinois farm. Uncountable acres of mid-American farmland were seeded with Buckbee’s flower and vegetable seeds. Postcards are part of the story.