Tag: wimsey collection
member name: Peter Wimsey
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September 10, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
The Wizard has recently acquired, through perilous exertions and an astonishing exercise of wits, an amzing compendium of useful advice and spells.
Not wishing to hoard this wisdom from those . . .
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August 28, 2008 01:18 PM EDT --
In a recent article, I described my acquisition of some old photos in Texas.
Boys In Texas
Several month ago, my businss required several visits to Austin, Texas.
Outside of the city, . . .
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August 29, 2008 08:35 PM EDT --
As an Unvalued Gather Member, and one who is also clueless and indifferent, I learned belatedly of the Summer Bonus Picture Points extravaganza.
Unvalued Gather Members - . . .
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June 20, 2008 10:42 AM EDT --
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Readers will recognize that the emotions and thoughts of the characters are an inspired, but imaginary, recreation by the author.
Dramatic license # 21210011
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November 10, 2009 09:23 AM EST --
One of the things that bothers me about looking at vintage photographs for sale in antique shops is the absence of identifying information. It is both sad and frustrating.
Sometimes one picture . . .
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June 21, 2008 01:03 PM EDT --
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About eighteen months ago, a lifetime on Gather, I published a poignant vintage photgraph of two young men.
At that time, I posted these haunting images as writing exercises. Readers were . . .
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February 18, 2007 10:42 AM EST --
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The Special Investigation Report Team at the Non News Network
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The Department of Health and Human Services announced today that Americans are no longer required . . .
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March 04, 2007 01:16 AM EST --
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Xanthe recently published a brief account of an Ash Wednesday visit to St. Xavier's, and Wurdzgurl recently published a handsome printing of Eliot's "Hollow Men". . . .
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November 27, 2007 12:26 AM EST --
The last few days have seen the amusing spectacle of an opinionated author deleting every comment about her article.
The article, a badly-written rant featuring interesting and illuminating . . .
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February 14, 2008 08:24 AM EST --
In celebration of St. Valentine's Day, I am publishing a vintage Cupid.
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This card was posted in McDonald Ohio on February 14, 1925
It was sent . . .
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April 05, 2008 08:28 AM EDT --
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In the summer of 1908, Minnie Thorn had gone to Lehi, Utah to "see the sights".
Her sister, Mamie, wrote to her to tell her not to become home sick, and about learning to . . .
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September 28, 2009 07:34 AM EDT --
The city of Dayton, Ohio was founded where three tributaries, Stillwater River, Mad River, and Wolf Creek, empty into the Great Miami River. When the city was laid out in 1795, local Indians . . .
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October 19, 2009 06:56 AM EDT --
More than a year ago, I first picked up a few examples of the Mainzer cards with illustrations of "dressed cats".
Most of the illustrations were done by the European artist, Eugen Hurtung.
This is . . .
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October 14, 2009 07:31 AM EDT --
If my eye had not been captured by a lovely linen postcard at the flea market, I might never have learned of Ruidoso, New Mexico and the Noisy River.
Ruidoso is a mountain village in south central New . . .
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November 02, 2009 08:07 AM EST --
Most of my postcard stories have related to specific persons and places.
Some postcard companies offered stock images of lovely scenes that were not identified.
I have a number of beautiful . . .
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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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September 07, 2008 08:35 AM EDT --
I recently scanned several hundred postcards from all parts of the United States, and a few from Europe.
Among the pristine "linen" cards (circa 1940), I found a view of "Crab . . .
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September 28, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
Among the cards in my growing collection are three score or more linen postcards from the 1940's and the early 1950's.
I have hesitated to post some of these cards because I do not . . .
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February 15, 2009 11:57 AM EST --
I am preparing short articles about attractive postcards that interest me.
None of these cards are attached to personalities - but they may be valuable to other folks doing web searches. . . .
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February 02, 2008 12:36 PM EST --
February 2 is a "cross quarter day", halfway between the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox.
As such, it was observed with rites and rituals from prehistoric times.
It is . . .
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