For Postcard Friendship Friday, here’s a postcard mailed to a Friend. Postmarked Santa Monica, California, 13 December 1938, this real photo postcard was dispatched to Mr. Friend P. Williams of Albany, New York. Let’s talk about our friend Friend; I was able to learn a great deal about him from a variety of sources. Originally [...]
This unvarnished card from the Cape Shore Paper Company shows (from the top down) a bluebird, female and male summer tanagers, and a meadowlark. The age is undetermined and, while it’s not that new, it’s not that old either. One day, about three years ago, my boss and I were walking back from lunch when [...]
This is almost certainly the oldest piece in my postcard collection, despite technically not being a postcard — it is a postal card, or “postal”, produced by the government. This particular card was written and postmarked October 27, 1880 — 128 years ago today. It is addressed to Charles J. Walker & Co. of Portland, [...]
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