March 13, 2026
Tag: Three Tragic Lives
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Three Tragic Lives
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Three women of extraordinary beauty, talent, and wealth whose lives could be the outline for an anthology of tragic short stories are portrayed in this remembrance. Two were dead before age 50, the other shunned by the world. Helene Held, Nance O’Neil, and Gaynor Rowlands are forgotten today but postcard collectors know their faces and…
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August 15, 2024 3 Comments
Ellie McCrackin returns to the Postcard History list of contributors with an encore to an essay she wrote years ago about the Grimm Brothers. It is inspired by her discovery of a complete set of UvaChrom postcards (Series 320) entitled Die Sieben Raben.