Wild Postcards

“Located in the heart of Wisconsin on the Wisconsin River, Stevens Point is a thriving and beautiful city showing rapid industrial development and the Stevens Point State University is located there.” Minus two points for the run-on sentence on this postcard, published by the Wyman Post Card Co., 722 Eau Claire Blvd., Wausau, Wis., probably [...]

“Scaling new heights at Lackland AFB! Air Force Recruits face long days and demanding physical challenges as they are transformed from civilians into proud members of the United States Air Force! Lackland AFB, located adjacent to San Antonio, Texas, is the world’s largest military training center.”  This is a card that I bought when I [...]

This is a card that I received from Esri, a four-year-old girl from Culemborg in the Netherlands.  She goes to school and can sign her own name, as you can see.  She writes (with some help from Mom): “Do you know Dora the Explorer? I like her very much and I want to have shoes [...]

This Curt Teich card (number 0B-H2338, produced in 1940) still has gorgeous colors. It came to me from the collection of Kay Anthony. According to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park website, “World renowned for its diversity of plant and animal life, the beauty of its ancient mountains, and the quality of its remnants of [...]