June 24, 2025
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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January 19, 2022 2 Comments
Today, Postcard History will bend a knee to honor the frivolous, a legend, and fifteen dollars-worth of whimsey. Very little hard evidence is available, but the story could well be true but not yet recorded for Internet researchers. That is not to say, the staff at Postcard History has given up on seeking proof, but we thought you may like to know what we’re doing behind the scenes.