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Postcard collecting offers many types of challenges such as understanding the illustration, discovering the artist and identifying the publisher. Sometimes however other types of challenges occur, such as that offered by the two cards shown below, both of which have messages written in code.
Holidays are not all that simple. Many have religious roots that have been converted to secular events and secular events converted to religious ones. Springtide, or Easter seems to be one of the oldest rites celebrating the rebirth of the earth – or resurrection.
In 1967 I was twenty years old, in the middle of college, and facing the Vietnam draft. So I have paid nostalgic attention to the 40th anniversary of one of the great cultural events of my generation.
Vampires, ghosts, goblins, witches, and mummies are traditional characters in the repertoire of scary stories told on dark Halloween nights, calculated to amuse or perhaps scare young children.
Many Web sites offer a service that allows a user to send a customized greeting card (or postcard) to a relative, friend, or acquaintance, delivered as an e-mail message containing a hyperlink which the recipient follows to visit the originating site and view the card.
The word “millions” pops up frequently with any mention of the Dionne Quintuplets who riveted the attention of millions of people the world over once it became evident they would survive the astonishing circumstances of their birth, May 24, 1934.
Here they are — 2008's postcards celebrating National Postcard Week.
Are modern tourist postcards kaput? According to an article from the Miami Herald online edition, postcards are no longer on the itinerary for many travelers.
Recently I discovered that most of the glass plate negatives produced by the Eastern Illustrated and Publishing Company photographers were acquired by the Penobscot Marine Museum
The beauty of collecting is that it is so individual and so personal. You pick an area and off you go.
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