December 15, 2025
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The Hotel Delaware
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It will soon be summer, a time that conjures memories of the fun filled days of our youth. Ask almost anyone who lives within two hundred miles of the Jersey Shore if they remember what it was like, and you will likely hear stories of weeklong vacations in Asbury Park, Beach Haven, Atlantic City, Ocean…
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November 14, 2019 3 Comments
It is rare for a Hollywood actor to have a mother who is equally famous. Maud Humphrey was such a person. Her famous son, Humphrey Bogart, star of more than 70 movies, was her only son. Maud gained her fame as an artist and illustrator. In her long career she produced nearly 30,000 illustrations for greeting cards, advertisements, magazine articles and juvenile literature. But, she was never a postcard artist. We who collect postcards, however, are able to enjoy her art because card publishers recognized how popular her art was and knew cards with her pictures would sell by the millions. Along with her story are some examples of her illustrations for the Butterick Corporation.