January 15, 2025
Tag: Series x
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Poster Postcards Part X
The US Navy Visits Australia
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U. S. Fleet Visits Australia The year before President Theodore Roosevelt left office, he dispatched the U. S. Navy’s Atlantic Fleet on an around the world tour. Twenty-eight ships and 14,000 men left port in Hampton Ponds, Virginia for South America, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Malaya, and back home through Suez and the Straits of Gibraltar. One of the…
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August 31, 2020 7 Comments
Offers of free gifts that motivate customers to become involved with a product or brand is not the invention of internet advertisers. Advertising postcards have been around since the start of the postcard era. During the 1950s and 1960s, postcards offering free gifts were popular as a “business-to-customer” method of sales communication. The emergence of full-color printing (“chromes”) enabled images to be crisp, colorful, and bright.