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May 30, 2019
Postcard History CelebratesOne Year of Publication
May 2019
The first discussion concerning Postcard History happened a few years ago in a restaurant in York, Pennsylvania. A free online magazine, with an international readership would be a wonderful addition to our hobby, but the initial plans needed refinement and the concept had to wait for its launch. The wait ended one year ago today.
The first story on Postcard History was simply outlandish. The featured illustration was a headless body of a girl in a bikini. At the first postcard show in June, the whole room was buzzing with conversation about the new online magazine. Some said shocking, others smiled, and still more saw the potential for something great. Most everyone loved the concept and wanted more.
More came. And, it was created by people who know their topics from experience as collectors and a lifelong interest in postcards and history. The pieces presented are not all new. We have reprinted some from other postcard collecting eras, but the scholarship is solid and we want to give it a wider audience.
Today as Postcard History celebrates one year of publication, we with great pride of accomplishment, present our readers with a review of our first year that includes all 184 articles. We invite you to scan this page to find something you may have missed or to reread your favorites.
We would like to know your thoughts. Click on the green comments icon, it will take you to the comments box where you can leave us a message. You can also rate any article with a single click on our new one-to-five stars rating system.
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We hope you enjoy scrolling through our Postcard History!
June 2019
Shot Towers
June 3, 2019
The Bird Charmer at Tuileries Gardens
June 6, 2019
The Healing Hands of Mahlon Locke
June 10, 2019
About Face
June 13, 2019
Bottle Caps and Pink Pearl Erasers
June 17, 2019
Thomas Edison and Henry Ford
June 20, 2019
Inside Sing Sing Prison and The Mutual Welfare League
June 24, 2019
A Day at Disney World
June 27, 2019
July 2019
Civil War Monuments
July 1, 2019
Big Birds
July 4, 2019
Give Chrome Postcards Some Respect
July 8, 2019
It isn’t déjà vu, but I guess it’s close.
July 11, 2019
Andy’s Story of Stan Musial
July 15, 2019
Have Gun Will Travel
July 18, 2019
It’s Old Home Week!
July 22, 2019
Punny Postcards
July 25, 2019
Good Morning, Mr. Selfridge
July 29, 2019
August 2019
Nobody Collects View Folders
August 1, 2019
“I Like Ike!”
August 5, 2019
A. Nielen’s Second Career
August 8, 2019
Meet Nipper, the RCA Dog
August 11, 2019
Phonographs on Postcards
August 11, 2019
Sign a Song of Postcards!
August 12, 2019
Bible Stories on Postcards
August 15, 2019
Sarah Bishop
August 17, 2019
The Iroquois Theatre Fire
August 18, 2019
My Search for the Assinaboine
August 19, 2019
Dinner With a Stranger
August 22, 2019
Qianlong’s Marble Boat That Doesn’t Float
August 25, 2019
My Dad and Ernie Pyle
August 25, 2019
The Dr. S. F. Smith House
August 26, 2019
How Old Is That Postcard
August 29, 2019
September 2019
Blind Willy Johnson
September 1, 2019
Red Cross Postcards
September 1, 2019
An Unassuming Postcard has Historical Significance
September 2, 2019
All the Single Ladies
September 5, 2019
Carpenters’ Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September 8, 2019
Stone and Chisels
September 8, 2019
Woman Suffrage Liberty Bell
September 9, 2019
Identifying Real Photo Postcards Using Crowdsourcing
September 12, 2019
The International Meridian Conference
September 15, 2019
Early American Postcards: a review
September 15, 2019
Livermore and Knight, Pioneer Postcard Publishers
September 16, 2019
George L. Fox, the American Grimaldi
September 21, 2019
The Mystery of a Great Work of Art
September 22, 2019
Quilts for a Cause
September 23, 2019
The Architecture of Mary Jane Colter
September 26, 2019
The Elephant Hotel
September 29, 2019
A Card Without a Caption
September 29, 2019
October 2019
The Crying Cayuse Twins Postcards
October 3, 2019
St. Mariacka in Gdansk
October 6, 2019
Hell’s Kitchen
October 6, 2019
The Worst Hurricane You Never Heard Of
October 7, 2019
How About Those Quiz Kids?
October 10, 2019
The Whole Story of the Needle’s Hole
October 13, 2019
Copernicus, Science and the Church
October 13, 2019
The Wildflower Excursions
October 14, 2019
The Tlingits: their life and legends
October 17, 2019
G. W. Bonte’s Tuck Postcards
October 20, 2019
The Giraffe
October 20, 2019
When Postcards Tell a Story
October 21, 2019
Lewis H. “Dude” Larsen
October 24, 2019
Meet the Lady Known as “La Belle”
October 27, 2019
Border Crossings on Postcards
October 27, 2019
States Poke Fun At Themselves Through Postcards
October 28, 2019
Dravo Corporation and the US Navy
October 31, 2019
November 2019
Bookmark Postcards
November 3, 2019
Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land . . . Literally!
November 4, 2019
They Were Champion Boxers Once, and Restauranteurs Too
November 7, 2019
Myra Hess
November 10, 2019
Two Rhode Island Postcards
November 10, 2019
Frank Furness, Philadelphian
November 11, 2019
Maud Humphrey and Her Art
November 14, 2019
1949: it was a very good year!
November 17, 2019
The Cayuga County Totem Tree
November 17, 2019
A Not Nice Postcard Collection
November 18, 2019
“They ran off to Gretna Green to get married!”
November 21, 2019
Banks Built in the Dutch Style
November 24, 2019
A Tuberclosis Nostrum and a Long Walk
November 24, 2019
Crimes Against the First Amendment
November 25, 2019
The Legend of the White Canoe; by William Trumbull (1861-1933)
November 28, 2019
December 2019
Edith Cavell: a Postcard Caused Her Murder
December 1, 2019
The Last Serious Thing!
December 1, 2019
The Story of Casey Jones and the Train Wreck That Made Him Famous
December 2, 2019
The Perdicaris Kidnapping
December 5, 2019
A Cottage Named Naše Bouda
December 8, 2019
Oh . . . Olana, an Awesome Surprise
December 8, 2019
Mount Rushmore
December 9, 2019
Baseball Park Postcard Collecting
December 12, 2019
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
December 15, 2019
S. S. Athenia: the first victim of war
December 15, 2019
The Grand View Ship Hotel
December 16, 2019
Shankar’s Award and a Kid Named Carlos
December 19, 2019
For the 138th Time
December 22, 2019
The Mansfield Bar – Mystery Solved? – Maybe!
December 22, 2019
CHRISTMAS—THE WAY IT NEVER WAS
December 23, 2019
Gaston Noury, a French Artist with a Flare for the International
December 26, 2019
Oscar of the Waldorf
December 29, 2019
Cooks Forest State Park
December 29, 2019
January 2020
The Great Union Station Train Wreck of 1953
January 2, 2020
Forgotten Correspondence
January 5, 2020
Lightships
January 6, 2020
The Beauty of a Caribbean Island on Modern Postcards
January 9, 2020
Postmarked New Orleans by Jason N. A. Smith: A review
January 12, 2020
Huyler’s Candy Company Postcards
January 13, 2020
The Tartan and Tuck’s Scottish Clans Postcards
January 16, 2020
Introduction to a Series Poster Postcards Part I
January 19, 2020
Mr. McMix’s House
January 19, 2020
The Day Hank Williams Died
January 20, 2020
Andrew B. Bowering
January 26, 2020
God, Glory and Gold vs. God, Glory and … Dead Bugs
January 27, 2020
Jewish Welfare Board Ship Postcards
January 30, 2020
Feburary 2020
The Dixie Cup Company
February 2, 2020
Part III – Fresh Air for the Children
February 2, 2020
I’d Rather Fight than Switch
February 3, 2020
America at Night in the Golden Age of Picture Postcards 1900-1914
February 6, 2020
S.S. Normandie
February 9, 2020
Posters IV Arthur Wragg
February 9, 2020
A Teacher’s Lesson Plan
February 10, 2020
The Civil Rights Movement and Its Anti-Communist Opponents
February 13, 2020
Remembering Classic Television Stars
February 17, 2020
Query Signal Level: [Acknowledged Reception Card] What’s that?
February 17, 2020
My Bargain Friday AND Bonanza Saturday
February 20, 2020
The Songs of Hiawatha
February 23, 2020
Eva Zeisel
February 23, 2020
Harriet Quimby
February 24, 2020
John B. Stetson Philadelphian
February 27, 2020
March 2020
Seabees: We Build, We Fight!
March 1, 2020
The Desert Song
March 1, 2020
Leap Year! One of Mankind’s Headaches
March 2, 2020
A Couple Walked Into a Bar . . .
March 8, 2020
Poster Series – Part VIII, I Tre Conti
March 8, 2020
February 12, 1908: The Day the Great Race Began
March 9, 2020
HEALTH EDUCATION POSTCARDS
March 12, 2020
Poster Series Number IX
March 15, 2020
Andreas Brown (1934-2020)
March 16, 2020
The Hotel Delaware
March 16, 2020
Marie “Rie” Cramer
March 19, 2020
Poster Series X – The US Navy Visits Australia
March 22, 2020
Joy Is One Postcard Away
March 23, 2020
Hamilton King
March 29, 2020
Poster Postcard Series #11
March 29, 2020
April 2020
The Tulip Mania of 1637
April 2, 2020
Have Two, Seeking the Rest
April 5, 2020
Poster Series XII – Boys Town, Nebraska
April 5, 2020
Balanced Rocks and Other Improbable Formations
April 6, 2020
Cowboys in Repose
April 9, 2020
Troglodyte and Other Fun Words to Say
April 12, 2020
Where Was It Made? – Part I – Beer
April 12, 2020
Songs Illustrated by Tuck Part One of Two Parts
April 13, 2020
Songs Illustrated by Tuck Part II
April 16, 2020
Where Was It Made? – Part II – Industrial Equipment
April 19, 2020
The Artists and Their Passenger Lines
April 19, 2020
The Flu Pandemic of 1918
April 20, 2020
The Dazzling Nightspots of Post-Prohibition America
April 23, 2020
Face on the Bar Room Floor
April 26, 2020
Where Was It Made? – Part III – Hershey’s Chocolate Kiss
April 26, 2020
Day #34, Thursday
April 27, 2020
Tuffi und die Schwebebahn
April 30, 2020
Wait. Why? Well Because . . .
April 30, 2020
May 2020
Where Was It Made? – Part IV – Evaporated Milk
May 2, 2020
National Postcard Week 2020
May 4, 2020
NATIONAL SCHOOLS, LOS ANGELES
May 7, 2020
Where Was It Made? – Part V – Wallpaper
May 10, 2020
Samplers vs Completists
May 10, 2020
Three Tragic Lives
May 11, 2020
The Amazing Output of Cobb Shinn
May 14, 2020
Where Was It Made? – Part VI – Sheets
May 17, 2020
Five Cities in Four States, What They Have in Common
May 17, 2020
The Barefoot Mailman
May 18, 2020
The Kentucky Derby
May 21, 2020
The Treaty of Bern
May 24, 2020
Where Was It Made? – Part VII – Curtain Rods
May 24, 2020
Painters Witness to Their Time
May 25, 2020
Many thanks from the UK for a fantastic read. I have been collecting for many years but your articles still teach me more about this wonderful hobby.
Thank you Marion Turner! The goal is to be a resource for all collectors.
Congratulations on this first anniversary. Let me go back over this wonderful index and see if I missed anything. I’ll keep reading through this next year!
Congratulation on a First year. Lots of interesting articles. I would like to write one about the Golden age of Post Cards . 1898 -1918. I have many or these. Especially women and humor.