Mixed Bathing, with Elephants
Mixed bathing — men and women in the water at the same time — was scandalous enough. But with elephants?
Category: United Kingdom
Westminster Abbey
A clear view of Westminster, with Big Ben in the background. Sent in by one extremely prolific postcard swapstress.
The Case of the Forgotten Postal
I stopped by the annual Mule Camp Market for lunch today, and picked up an old Perry Mason dime store...
Two for Tuesday: Hadrian’s Wall
One can only imagine how, in the 19th Century, expeditions would leave Europe to search for undiscovered places in the...
St. Martin-in-the-Fields
I find this photo postcard of the St. Martin-in-the-Fields church at Trafalgar Square to be very striking. What makes it...
Fairy Secrets
Margaret W. Tarrant (1888-1959) was an English illustrator whose career spanned fifty years, and who seemed to be in constant...
Tiered Evening, March 1951
Kelly sent me this beautiful postcard of a photo by Norman Parkinson (1913-1990), a fashion and portrait photographer. He opened...
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