Tag: circa 1910
member name: Peter Wimsey
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December 03, 2009 07:39 AM EST --
The Zeppelin is named for Count Frederick Von Zeppelin, a German nobleman who observed first-hand the use of balloons in the American Civil War and in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
Von Zeppelin . . .
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December 07, 2008 09:15 AM EST --
I have seven well-made postcards containing colorful scenes of young lovers in natural settings; boating, canoeing, walking in the woods, lounging in hammocks.
Each scene is accompanied by a . . .
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October 11, 2009 07:36 AM EDT --
I have not studied the history of pornography, formally or informally.
Like every literate reader, I know that the creation of racy images is as old as printing presses.
(The Museum of . . .
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November 06, 2009 08:34 AM EST --
Birdie Sharp was working in Tionesta, Pa, a borough in Forest County.
Although Tionesta was the county seat, it was a small community on the edge of the large Allegheny National Forest. . . .
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October 03, 2008 07:59 AM EDT --
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I have come into possession of an unusal photograph of what appears to be a college sports team.
The athletes are not sporting any kind of insignia or regalia, . . .
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November 18, 2008 10:31 AM EST --
On a recent business trip to the midwest, I pulled off the interstate to get gas and to browse the wares of a small antique shop.
I purchased a small collection of vintage postcards containing . . .
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November 01, 2008 08:22 AM EDT --
Postcard photographs were a craze in the early 20th century.
Many friends exchanged them by mail, and many sought to collect photograph cards from each one of their friends.
I have many postcards that . . .
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May 23, 2009 05:51 AM EDT --
Postcard collectors are familiar with an entire range of risque and suggestive images that were popular in the early years of the 20th Century.
Some of them have been shared by me in other articles . . .
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May 30, 2009 12:09 AM EDT --
I have become the friend of a new Gather member, Honore Montgolfier, who enjoys postcard stories.
Unfortunately, my warm, friendly regard is challenged by my feelings of covetousness related . . .
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June 21, 2009 08:28 AM EDT --
For Father's Day, I am posting two vintage postcards with images related to fatherhood.
Neither of the postcards was mailed, so there are no "personalities" attached to them.
This, the second, postcard . . .
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October 12, 2009 07:09 AM EDT --
Late last year, I posted a series of vintage postcards featuring a couple pursuing romance or courtship in a variety of outdoor locations.
Each scene of wooing was accompanied by a rhyming ditty about . . .
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July 18, 2009 08:35 AM EDT --
I love rural America, and appreciate the hard work required to operate a farm or orchard.
It is "unnatural", I believe, to be divorced entirely from the rhythms of raising crops, and the cycles of seedtime . . .
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March 01, 2009 09:19 PM EST --
In a recent article, I described my efforts to repair the ravages of time and light and negligence on old postcards. I also shared examples of my work.
Before and After: Repairing Vintage Postcards . . .
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June 21, 2009 08:31 AM EDT --
For Father's Day, I am posting two vintage postcards with images related to fatherhood.
Neither of the postcards was mailed, so there are no "personalities" attached to them.
The first postcard . . .
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July 04, 2009 03:32 AM EDT --
For the Fourth of July, I am posting a series of photographic images taken of the Statue of Liberty that adorns the harbor of New York City.
A gift of the people of France in celebration of our nation's . . .
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August 16, 2009 01:05 AM EDT --
Dora Grobe was born in Ruma, Illinois in 1886. Her parents were Henry and Wilhelmina Grobe who operated a farm in Randolph County.
Ruma is a village in southwest Illinois. In 2000, it had . . .
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September 26, 2009 08:21 AM EDT --
It is impossible to visit London and to miss the imposing column honoring Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square.
What Lord Nelson means to England and to English history may be unknown to Americans, however. . . .
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October 21, 2009 06:06 AM EDT --
Steubenville, Ohio is a small city on the Ohio River, on the state's eastern boundary with West Virginia. Steubenville is about 38 miles from Pittsburgh, PA.
The city was plotted in . . .
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February 14, 2009 10:01 AM EST --
On a quiet Sunday morning last summer, Ivy posted a vintage postcard featuring a charming house on the water. In the foreground of the picture, beautiful swans (gripping golden cords in their beak) . . .
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November 03, 2009 05:47 AM EST --
Daniel Boone is one of the early American heros about whom there seems to be a lot of confusion. I have heard his name, and that of Davy Crockett, used inter-changeably.
An unscientific sample . . .
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