Tag: wartime cards

  • Red Cross Postcards

    Red Cross Postcards

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    The Red Cross was founded by Henri Dunant, who was present at the Battle of Solferino in 1859, at which 40,000 men were killed or wounded. Dunant spent the next five years trying to get support for his plan and succeeded in convoking a convention of interested persons in Geneva, Switzerland in 1864. After the…

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Past Article

Bob Teevan
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What happens when a postcard advertising a magazine is used to invite guests to tea? Postcard History claims there is a story behind every postcard. Our motto has never been more apropos then here. A society family invites neighbors to tea. The hosts, their guests, a cheap magazine, a fishmonger and a cat all have history. Here is some of it.

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