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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:44:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What's in the Mail: Postage, pizza and politics</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Here we go again: On May 12, the United States Postal Service will increase the cost of postage. This mailing-cost &ldquo;shift&rdquo; is destined to become an annual occurrence due to the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act signed by George W. Bush at the end of 2006, which allows postage to stay on track with inflation (but don&rsquo;t look for the rates to ever decrease).]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Henry Ford’s funny flivver inspired a generation</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Whether the form was stories, post cards, joke books and songs, movies, serious literature and poems or just the 15 seconds of fame, the Model T was constantly talked about, pictured or portrayed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Beth's Treasure Part II</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<span class="ListDescription" id="_ctl0__ctl18_FW_AdvancedArticles_DataGrid1__ctl59_lblListDescription">Beth&rsquo;s discovery of the discarded postcard collection sparked an interest not just in postcard, but in history as well. Reading the postcards sent home from the war gave Beth a new appreciation for the sacrifices made by both the troops and the families they left behind.</span>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Chocolate – delicious, delectable, soothing and collectible</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cocoa beans were thought to have mighty and magical powers. Wisdom and strength came from eating the cocoa bean. Priests used the beans in rituals and religious ceremonies. They were used as a treatment for fever, coughs and even discomfort during pregnancy.<strong><font size="1"><br />
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>1967 The summer of love</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dressed Fish Postcards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Literally speaking, dressed fish is a market term to a fish monger &ndash; freshly caught fish that have been cleaned and are ready for cooking or further processing, often with their heads left on.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Take these postcards with a grain of salt</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The history of salt is the history of the earth. More than 500 million years ago many areas of the globe were under the vast oceans. As the sea retreated from the land mighty deposits of salt were left behind, often hundreds of feet thick.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Postcard prices realized vary at auction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Need a postcard fix? Well, this may help: We've compiled a few auction results from LiveAuctioneers.com on postcard auctions.<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Postcards tell of disaster in Texas City</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Images from disasters and other major events are sent around the world so quickly today that it&rsquo;s easy to forget the limitations of news coverage before the information highway was built.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Postcard Album Update: Other baseball cards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For those who love baseball collectibles but find the traditional &ldquo;bubblegum&rdquo; cards too pricey or too commercial, there&rsquo;s a pleasant alternative: BASEBALL POSTCARDS.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Vintage Leap Year Postcards</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6218</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Bachelors have long been the butt of much humor &ndash; some of it burlesque, some of it dark. To help alleviate their condition and allow them to escape the fate traditionally assigned to lonely, single men, legend and folklore give maidens the right to pop the question themselves once every four years.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The candlestick telephone</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Alexander Graham Bell had no idea what his communication device would turn into&mdash;or the effect it would have on civilization.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Postcards That Go Bump in the Night</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Postcard hobby alive and well at auction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The fall auction at the Lyn Knight gallery proved once again that the postcard hobby is alive and well. Bidding wars were fought for many fantastic postcards. Record prices were achieved on real photo postcards, as well as artist signed and Halloween.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Military Installations on Postcards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Postcard collector spotlight: Military installations on postcards]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Linens &amp; Beyond: Isn’t she lovely?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Not every beauty queen can be Miss America!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Postcards help preserve an Old World folk art: fan-carving</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Postcards are being used to help preserve an almost lost folk art, that of fan-carving. The most culturally significant fan-carved item is the fan bird.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Postcard Album Update: Real photos make fun postcards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[What does a photographer do when times are tough and competition is stiff? Those who survive use their imaginations and offer a little something extra. This is certainly what professionals did during the postcard craze of the early 1900s.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Memorial Day Postcards – Sam Gabriel Co. &amp; Frances Brundage</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the earliest years of the 20th century no holiday inspired a larger number or a more beguiling display of colorful, historic and patriotic postcards than did Memorial Day.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Gadgets, gizmos and thingums</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Old, odd and unique. That could be an antique shop, the collection of postcards with this article, or the owner of a business. Actually, it describes all three.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Vintage baby and stork postcard history</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why were storks picked by artists to bring new babies to waiting parents? Knowing stork behavior and cultural history regarding storks, makes the answer clear.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Burning stones: Mining history tells a dark tale</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Despair settled in the grimy creases of a face made old through wear. His lungs sucked heavy dust with every breath, his bones deformed from repetitive labor. His hands are cut, and often bleed from handling thousands of stone shards. The boy is 8 years old and for whatever reason he has been sold to the &ldquo;company store&rdquo; to live and probably die in a coal mine.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>All in the family</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Colin Waye has a collection of century-old postcards that his grandfather, a sea captain, sent back from his travels before he was lost at sea in 1917.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Halloween Postcards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Halloween postcards seem to be a very stable commodity in the postcard world. For the last 30 years, I have seen the price grow from a couple of dollars a card to $1,500 for some.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bite into Halloween postcards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[No, this is not an article about vampires although, the new myth-expanding HBO series True Blood has generated curiosity. Instead, focus your attention on apples &ndash; commonplace apples &ndash; which appear frequently on antique Halloween postcards.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>[The Postcard Life] Dr. John Brinkley: Quite the quack</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=4358</link>
      <description><![CDATA[One of the great personalities of American medical quackery is a fascinating, ne&rsquo;er-do-well egomaniacal character named John Brinkley.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Black postcards provide another, more rare, Halloween topic</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=5305</link>
      <description><![CDATA[It is evident that Halloween is one of the highly collected postcard holiday topics. The extreme prices on rare John Winsch publishing Halloween postcards have been recorded many times into the thousand dollars a card range to a low of about $100.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Dionne Quints: Their survival odds were one in 57 million</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=5006</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The word &ldquo;millions&rdquo; 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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>It’s turkey season</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=5636</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Who&rsquo;s a turkey? I&rsquo;m not sure when the term came into use, indicating that the receiver of the slur was as goofy as a turkey &hellip; but guess what? It isn&rsquo;t a fair assessment of the American wild turkey who can be quite wily, especially when pursued by hunters.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Big Band leaders booked for York Book and Paper Fair</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[YORK, Pa. &ndash; Glenn Miller will be present at the York Book and Paper Fair in April. So will Benny Goodman, the &ldquo;King of Swing.&rdquo; Both Dorsey brothers, Tommy and Jimmy, will be there.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lyndon Johnson Postcards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Collecting postcards of American Presidents, First Ladies and their homes offers an opportunity to relive or reflect upon major events in American history. It&rsquo;s an affordable and fun way to learn about how our nation&rsquo;s first families lived.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>One year later: Post-Katrina postcards found in New Orleans</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ten months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the American Library Association (ALA) held the city&rsquo;s first major conference.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Remembering Helen Keller</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=5978</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Ala. Her parents were Captain Arthur Keller, a former Confederate Army officer, and his wife, Kate, who was a cousin to Robert E. Lee.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hawaiian postcards say "Aloha"</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hawaii became a unique tourist attraction early in the 20th century just as postcards were becoming firmly established as a means of colorful promotion and communication.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Scenes of the Mother Country</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[America&rsquo;s mother country is England and England has a long history that has been the topic of thousands of learned tomes, general histories and other research. And postcards.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>In the mail: Giving thanks and telling secrets</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Starting in January 2008, postcards of thanks received by artist Damaris Pierce will be posted on her Web site at <em>www.IamThankful.com</em>. Perhaps inspired by the success of PostSecret, Pierce decided that &ldquo;Giving thanks is not just for Thanksgiving.&rdquo;]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Christmas postcards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The tradition of sending cards dates back a hundred years, perhaps it&rsquo;s even older. Postcards have long been a way to send holiday cheer to those far away.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Beth's Treasure: Part V</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<span class="ListDescription" id="_ctl0__ctl18_FW_AdvancedArticles_DataGrid1__ctl56_lblListDescription">Beth's discovery of the discarded postcard collection sparked an interest not just in postcard, but in history as well. Reading the postcards sent home from the war gave Beth a new appreciation for the sacrifices made by both the troops and the families they left behind.</span>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Musical postcard records put new spin on collecting</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6701</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Pursuing the Marvelous: Spring is coming, and so is baseball</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I have always been attracted to the comic baseball postcards that take the baseball terminology and apply it to other things such as lovers. A Base Hit for example.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bunnies, buns and bouquets</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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 &ndash; or resurrection.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Top 10 New Year’s resolutions</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=5767</link>
      <description><![CDATA[It is that time of the year when people make New Year&rsquo;s resolutions and publications make all sorts of lists: best, worst, favorites and so on, usually consisting of ten items. Why not combine the two and explore the postcard possibilities of illustrating them?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Real Photo Postcards: The beauty of imperfection</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Collectors of real photo postcards are concerned with condition. The term &ldquo;mint&rdquo; is applied to a perfect card, a card that is just like it was when it was produced.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Animal wonderland on postcards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A huge project is underway to catalog every one of the 1.8 million species on planet earth. According to a BBC News report, this huge Encyclopedia of Life now has 30,000 pages and is scheduled for completion in 2017.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Linens and Beyond: Main Street Masterpieces</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As every postcard collector knows, the same place (railroad depot, restaurant, local view, etc.) can be depicted by photographers in many different ways.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Postcard Collector's 25th Anniversary</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Here&rsquo;s what our long-time columnists had to say when they looked back (or ahead) for the 25th anniversary of Postcard Collector magazine.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Real life heroes on postcards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Recognizing superheroes on postcards is easy. They sport bright tights and possess special powers. It&rsquo;s much harder to put together a collection of real life heroes, mainly because everyone&rsquo;s list of deserving people is different.]]></description>
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      <title>Movie Stars Postcards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When American movies began, there were no movie stars. In the early 1900s during the Nickelodeon era it was almost impossible to get stage actors and actresses to work in the movies.]]></description>
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      <title>Bulletin Board: Preserve your postcard collection</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[How to preserve your postcard collection from storage safety hazard:&nbsp; There are numerous albums and holders available for storing a postcard collection. Almost all will store and attractively display postcards, but the majority will not preserve a collection, and many have the potential to cause serious damage to the cards.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>LINENS &amp; BEYOND: Curt Teich topical linens at the Jackson Auction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For anyone at all interested in linen postcards, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006, was a remarkable day. That was the day that duplicate linen postcards from the Curt Teich archives were offered for auction at Jackson&rsquo;s Auctions in Cedar Falls, Iowa.]]></description>
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      <title>Bazaars</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[What could be more colorful than an Oriental bazaar? Today, modern marketplaces in many cases stand on ground that once was a caravan stop along the ancient Silk Roads.]]></description>
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      <title>Shiny but not new – Let’s talk diners</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It stands as a shiny beacon of a memorable time, a veritable bastion, calling, inviting all peoples to enter and partake of its simple fare. This is the all-American, usually silver, streamlined diner.]]></description>
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      <title>What's in the Mail? Mementos of Montana</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Montanans love modern postcards! A wide variety are for sale across the state from Little Bighorn to Kalispell. Even the governor gets into the act.]]></description>
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      <title>Kringle conveyance</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=5746</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Santa Claus, as it turns out, is a very adaptable fellow. Legends of a generous cleric, Germanic god, Father Christmas or jolly elf, have existed for centuries.]]></description>
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      <title>Politically incorrect postcards push limits</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=5330</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Warning: Don&rsquo;t read this if political correctness is your prime objective.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Kilmer Legacy – 100 percent proof characters</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The day mankind began walking upright he started looking for things to improve and prolong health. Along with a few useful remedies, hundreds of cures more wishful than useful were concocted &ndash; and some were downright dangerous.]]></description>
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      <title>Back to School</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fall is here and mothers everywhere are rushing to get their children off to school. It is very complicated these days with schools sending out long expensive lists of what is required by the first day. Life during the postcard era was much simpler. It required a pencil and a pair of shoes.]]></description>
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      <title>Collector Spotlight: Holiday Inn collection keeps growing</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The beauty of collecting is that it is so individual and so personal. You pick an area and off you go.]]></description>
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      <title>Superheroes on super postcards</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=5887</link>
      <description><![CDATA[As a child I read every comic book printed, but I never collected them in spite of my mania for accumulating everything from pebbles to paper napkins. No doubt some rare early issues went through my hands, but the deal with my dad was: Read and return.]]></description>
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      <title>What's in the Mail?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Let George do it</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fact and fiction about the first president of the United States]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Made in the U.S.A. - Thanksgiving Postcards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sending, receiving and collecting postcards was a worldwide mania that began in the 1890s and continued until public tastes changed around 1914. The early 20th century was the &ldquo;Golden Age.&rdquo;]]></description>
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      <title>Skull drudgery preserved for posterity on postcards</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=7053</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Do you think your job is tough? These postcards show the world's worst jobs through the ages.<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Old Ironsides: An American Naval Legend</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Launched more than 200 years ago as one of our young nation&rsquo;s earliest fighting ships, the <span style="font-style: italic;">U.S.S. Constitution</span> &ndash; affectionately called Old Ironsides by generations of Americans &ndash; has long been a most beloved natural symbol of liberty and freedom.]]></description>
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      <title>The many starring roles of Shirley Temple Black</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[On April 23, 2008, the child prodigy who helped displace cares and concerns during the Great Depression celebrated her 80th birthday. She shares that birth date with William Shakespeare (1564-1616).]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Leading ladies of the laboratories – pharmaceutical tour guides</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Over the years I&rsquo;ve come across a number of postcards of a bunch of women in identical outfits arranged in classic group poses &ndash; lined up, fanned out, and stepped arrangements.]]></description>
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      <title>Postcard and paper show has new look, new manager</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6169</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Greater Chicago Postcard and Paper Show coming in April promises to bring a new look to both dealers and collectors. Lyn Knight Auctions of Lenexa, Kan., has acquired the bi-annual shows produced by Susan Brown Nicholson.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Eastern Illustrated meets historical society</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6350</link>
      <description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The mischief makers</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Our local super-store has one sad rack of postcards with little to tempt even the most avid collector. A hundred years ago the situation was vastly different. Almost every topic under the sun was depicted on postcards, but none appealed to the general buyer more than adorable children.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Pursuing the Marvelous: Crossing America</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[During the postcard era we can see the progression of American transportation from horse and buggy to jet planes. But the early days of automobile transportation is the most fun to collect.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Greater Chicago Postcard and Paper Show, April 17-18</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6240</link>
      <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO &ndash; The Greater Chicago Postcard and Paper Show coming in April promises to bring a new look to both dealers and collectors. Lyn Knight Auctions of Lenexa, Kan., has acquired the bi-annual shows]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Postcard Album Update: Quest for Olympic gold - on postcards</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=5203</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Paris tried to kill me. Food poisoning would have been enough for one visit, but I was knocked over when a crowd surged forward in an elevator going down to the subway and tripped up by a vicious piece of metal sticking out of the ground near the Arc de Triomphe.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Collector Spotlight: Postcards show a tiny town celebrating</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6290</link>
      <description><![CDATA[My name is Joan Roberson. I collect postcards from a tiny town in south-central Pennsylvania. About 350 folks live in Schellsburg, a four-block-long town on the Lincoln Highway, Route 30.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Living the Postcard Life: Catching up on readers' mail</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6365</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Excuse me! I&rsquo;ve fallen way behind in reporting on readers&rsquo; write-ins. We&rsquo;ll catch up a bit right here, right now.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Early 20th-Century St. Patrick's Day Postcards</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6044</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Legend has it that many an Irishman, upon departing his native village for the trek that would take him across the ocean to America, would pause for a second and then tuck a bit of turf into his slender luggage.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Postcard Album Update</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=3731</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Long before cell phones and e-mail, postcards were used to communicate personal news to historical events. Take a visual walk through history.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Postcards from the Société Anonyme</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=5886</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Soci&eacute;t&eacute; Anonyme, a group made up of some of the most avant-garde artists of its day, can rightfully claim to be New York&rsquo;s first museum of modern art.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Don’t laugh – it’s paid for</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6298</link>
      <description><![CDATA[According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of people who own their own homes in this country has risen almost every year since 1960. Today, more than two-thirds of Americans are the king or queen of their castle.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>They were green before ‘green’ was in: Meet the CCC</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=5747</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The air began to warm. Great glaciers that covered the earth slowly melted, changing the landscape in their wake, leaving behind reminders of the age of ice in the valleys, hills and lakes gouged into the terrain.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Don’t throw these hats into the ring</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6353</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<img width="65" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="94" border="0" align="right" alt="vintage hat" src="/upload/images/PC%204-7%20clip_image010%20PC%20M-J%2008.jpg" />Ever wonder what a &ldquo;mad hatter&rdquo; could be? Or a plumassier? They are both components in the language of the hat. And, someone thought enough of chapeaus to put several varieties on postcards &hellip; often to poke fun at fashion.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Beware of some Internet postcards</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6133</link>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dogs Made Some Delightful 20th Century Postcard Images</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6053</link>
      <description><![CDATA[There is the story of a presidential contender who encountered a former President of the United States. When the contender asked about life in the White House, the President offered, &ldquo; I have good news and bad news. The good news is that if you are elected you will be permitted to bring your dog to the White House to live with you.&rdquo;]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ocean Grove, N.J., Postcards, Books &amp; Paper Show</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6171</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Historical Society of Ocean Grove, N.J., will host its 7th Annual Ocean Grove &amp; Greater New Jersey Antique Postcards, Books, Advertising &amp; Paper Collectibles Show &amp; Sale on Saturday, April 18, 2009,]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>May Treasure Hunt Sweepstakes announced</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6462</link>
      <description><![CDATA[IOLA, Wis.&mdash;Sponsored by Fan Carver&rsquo;s World, the Antique Trader May Treasure Hunt Sweepstakes is celebrating the arrival of spring by giving away an original fan-carved bird, representing the dove of peace]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Living the Postcard Life: On The Road Again</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6222</link>
      <description><![CDATA[It had been more than five years since Janet and I were on the long distance postcard trail, and we were itching to see old friends and new-to-us cards. Wichita! Why not?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Living the Postcard Life: To bay ... or not to bay</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6358</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<em><img width="61" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="94" align="right" src="/upload/images/3%20Mermaids%20PC%20M-J%2008.jpg" alt="mermaids postcard" /></em>To buy or not to buy would be more accurate. Puns aplenty, but the fun for many seems to be waning. The World Wide Web&rsquo;s immensely popular and awesomely immense 24/7 flea-and-everything-else market has initiated changes to its SOP that some addicts claim as all messed up.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Collector Spotlight: Six degrees of postcards</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6352</link>
      <description><![CDATA[John Guare&rsquo;s concept of &ldquo;Six Degrees of Separation&rdquo; confounds me. Using the principles of such a theory, I should be able to make connections with each person I mention on this page, but I can&rsquo;t and I wish I could.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 1906</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6046</link>
      <description><![CDATA[For us as postcard collectors the earthquake and fire that ravaged San Francisco in 1906 have special significance. Coming at the tail end of the undivided back era, the earthquake was the first major United States disaster to be extensively recorded on postcards.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How to tell if it's a real photo postcard</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[From the Tropical Postcard Club Newsletter: How to tell the difference between a Real Photo postcard and a printed postcard.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Price, worth and value</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6255</link>
      <description><![CDATA[In 2007, a collector bought this RPPC image of a tattooed tattoo artist sitting in his studio for, including buyer&rsquo;s premium, $4,830. The sale was at a Lyn Knight Postcard and Paper Auction near Kansas City.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>National Postcard Week 2008 postcards</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6366</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Here they are &mdash; 2008's postcards celebrating National Postcard Week.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Top-rated travel site reinvents traditional postcards</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=5307</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Imagine being able to mail your friends a personalized postcard and have it delivered to their mailbox without ever having to step into a store or post office.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Wish list for a perfect postcard</title>
      <link>http://www.antiquetrader.com//article/?p_ArticleId=5827</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Every collector has a different idea of what the perfect postcard is.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tracking Sherlock Holmes on postcards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Thanks to K-Tea van Geel for sharing a copy of the &ldquo;More on the Map&rdquo; 2008 calendar from her new home in western Massachusetts. Each month, this calendar from Florence Savings Bank features antique postcards of local communities like South Deerfield, Hatfield, Williamsburg, Hadley, Amherst, Belchertown, and Granby]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Long before Walt Disney created mega entertainment locations, there was a place known throughout the world as the premier amusement destination &ndash; Coney Island.]]></description>
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      <title>Postcard Album Update 2: Silhouette profile portraits</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Taste in art changes just as surely as swings in fashion, so it&rsquo;s not surprising that the craze for late Victorian postcards had drastically diminished by the end of World War I.]]></description>
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      <title>Wheelchair Real Photo Postcards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Real photo postcards document many aspects of history that are relatively absent in other forms of information. Postcard photographers lived in the communities they photographed and had access to the details of everyday life as common people experienced it.]]></description>
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      <title>Post Mark Collectors Club Meets July 22-25</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[WACO, Texas&nbsp; &ndash; Members of the national Post Mark Collectors Club will gather in Waco, Texas, in late July for their 48th annual convention, bringing their interest in postal history and its paper collectibles to the state of Texas for the first time.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ldquo;A hard hearted person,&rdquo; the antiques appraiser said gravely to my eleven-year-old daughter, &ldquo;would look at this and say that it&rsquo;s only worth a few hundred dollars, but really &ndash; this is priceless.&rdquo;]]></description>
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      <title>Pursuing the Marvelous: Gospel wagons</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dwight L. Moody was one of the great evangelists of the 19th century. Moody started the Bible-Work Institute of the Chicago Evangelization Society (renamed Moody Bible Institute shortly before his death), one of the first in the Bible school movement.]]></description>
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      <title>Beth's Treasure Part III</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<span class="ListDescription" id="_ctl0__ctl18_FW_AdvancedArticles_DataGrid1__ctl58_lblListDescription">Beth&rsquo;s discovery of the discarded postcard collection sparked an interest not just in postcard, but in history as well. Reading the postcards sent home from the war gave Beth a new appreciation for the sacrifices made by both the troops and the families they left behind.</span>]]></description>
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      <title>Beth's Treasure: Part IV</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<span class="ListDescription" id="_ctl0__ctl18_FW_AdvancedArticles_DataGrid1__ctl57_lblListDescription">Beth&rsquo;s discovery of the discarded postcard collection sparked an interest not just in postcard, but in history as well. Reading the postcards sent home from the war gave Beth a new appreciation for the sacrifices made by both the troops and the families they left behind.</span>]]></description>
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      <title>Postcard Collector Bulletin Board</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[How many people do you know who can say they appeared on a commercially mass produced postcard that had at least two printings? I had that good fortune.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Just married? On to the honeymoon!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ldquo;What&rsquo;s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet&rdquo;&nbsp; <em>&mdash; William Shakespeare<br />
</em>If the Bard, in his famous romance&nbsp; &ldquo;Romeo and Juliet&rdquo; claimed names are less important than emotions, the same may be said about defining &ldquo;honeymoon&rdquo; or trying to discover the word&rsquo;s original root or meaning.]]></description>
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      <title>Moments of humor during WWII</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Their efforts to communicate with folks back home weren&rsquo;t always easy for the GIs serving in World War II. Aside from censorship, it was often difficult to tell their families about the grim events and scenes overseas ...]]></description>
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      <title>Sleuthing through postcards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In 1906, there was a trade publication that came out every month or two that was sent to people to encourage them to sell postcards. The covers say &ldquo;Appealing to the Stationery, Art &amp; Souvenir Novelty Dealers.&rdquo;]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The new year caught me quite unaware. &rsquo;Ought seven ended with a visit to the Dickens Fair, the Edwardian era folderol that fills the four San Francisco weekends before Christmas.]]></description>
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      <title>Happy Birthday, Abe</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When my grandson, Donnie Rand, was born nine years ago, I started a postcard collection of presidents and first ladies for him.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Beth's Treasure: Part I</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ldquo;A hard hearted person,&rdquo; the antiques appraiser said gravely to my eleven-year-old daughter, &ldquo;would look at this and say that it&rsquo;s only worth a few hundred dollars, but really &ndash; this is priceless.&rdquo;]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Turning the Tables: Deer Hunting Season</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[One of my great joys collecting postcards is realizing how many strange collecting categories it is possible to come up with. I have to admit that I never specifically looked or asked dealers for postcards of deer behaving like hunters!]]></description>
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      <title>Living the Postcard Life: Having a great time ...!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[WRITE AWAY! The past weeks have been busy and distracting for me, so this column&rsquo;s approaching deadline took me by surprise. No real crises, but plenty to do and plan for with the many economic changes we all have to accept.]]></description>
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      <title>Real Photo Postcards: Community wolf hunts</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Collectors&rsquo; extol the virtues of real photo postcards as ephemera that document practices that have passed from America&rsquo;s landscape.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>From the Editor: The older you get ...</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[My mother always told me that the older you get, the faster time goes by. Boy, was she right. Last month I celebrated 20 years at Krause Publications. But where did that time go?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dallas Metroplex Postcard Club celebrates 25 years</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Dallas Metroplex Postcard Club was started on June 11, 1983, as a neighboring club to the Cowtown Postcard Club in Fort Worth, started in 1954.]]></description>
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