July 28, 2026
Tag: world war I nurses
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Edith Cavell: a Postcard Caused Her Murder
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It seems that the stories of war live forever. One such story is the tragic death of Edith Cavell who died in October 1915 by a German firing squad. The story is related to us by at least three sets of postcards. Read on ….
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August 1, 2024 3 Comments
The world’s most celebrated pen-and-ink artist was Charles Gibson. He first achieved fame with a drawing he sold to Life magazine when he was 19 years old – The Gibson Girl. Not surprisingly he did other things too. Postcard History tells the whole story.