August 27, 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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March 28, 2021 3 Comments
The final piece of Postcard History’s Presidential Homes series appears here. We have saved the best until last. Mount Vernon may be the most visited of all the president’s homes and it may be that Mount Vernon postcards outnumber the others by many times.