The industrial revolution and burgeoning commerce fostered an urban pride that reflected in grand architecture, green spaces, and leisure and entertainment. Public parks, amusement parks, and beachside boardwalks flourished. New York’s Central Park, designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead, opened in New York
About this time last year [January 23, 2022], one of my early contributions to Postcard History was about a postcard found in a used book I bought in a Baltimore, Maryland, bookstore. The image on the card was the lobby of the Colonial
There is a genuine belief that collecting postcards helps you learn something new every day. At different times when the search is on for a card from your collection that will become the theme illustration
The artwork on this beautiful old postcard is by Gerrit A. Beneker. Beneker’s name on postcards is quite rare. (Within my thirty-five years of collecting, his name has appeared on only two or three other postcards. (One you will see later down this
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