August 11, 2026
Tag: US Navy
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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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October 22, 2020 2 Comments
This is a very unusual contribution to Postcard History. It is about the artist, L. H. “Dude” Larsen, and his art and how he used his talents to make postcards. Most of the illustrations are photographs of the original artwork that inspired the postcards we featured on October 24, 2019. This is a real, behind the scenes look at postcard history.