Wednesday, May 13. 2015
Sally and Mark Wingham are the new owners of Picture Postcard Monthly – a 56-page a month publication sold at fairs around the country and with subscribers at home and abroad, including most English speaking countries, Europe and Scandinavia.
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Saturday, May 2. 2015
Postcards, as much as anything, provide a rose-tinted picture into the paradise of the past or, in the case of those awesome old postcards from the 30s, and 40s, a hand-drawn idealization. However whitewashed and glamed up, they still give a vivid picture of a past world, and in the following postcards from the Florida State Library archives, that world is Miami Beach.
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Tuesday, April 14. 2015
Each time you open an old postcard box, memories flow through your mind taking you to different times and places. The displayed postcards at the ongoing exhibition "Femmes Ottomanes et Dames Turques" (Ottoman Women and Turkish Ladies) at the Lycee Notre Dame de Sion bears witness not to an ordinary biographical account, but the intriguing lives of women from the Balkans, Anatolia, the Caucasus and Middle East between the late 19th and early 20th century.
The walls of the small exhibition room are filled with over 200 postcards, saying either "Dame Turque" (Turkish Lady) or "Salut de Constantinople" (Greetings from Constantinople). Most of the postcards are from the archive of French photograph collector Pierre de Gigord, and those dated between 1880 and 1930 were sent either by French soldiers deployed to the east or French travelers touring around the Ottoman Empire.
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Tuesday, March 24. 2015
You're unlikely to find a major American city with darker nights than Detroit. Yes, the ancient streetlight system is undergoing a major overhaul, but it's porch lamps, headlights, and glowing businesses that truly keep cities aglow after dark. In many parts of the city, these are still in short supply. These postcards depict nighttime in the bustling Detroit of yesteryear when streetcars, passenger ships, and the Guardian Building's giant searchlight illuminated the city in ways we're unlikely to ever see again.
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Beverley Olson Buller said it was her dad, the late Dr. Bob Olson, who started her mother Loyette on her hobby of collecting postcards. By the time Loyette died in February 2014, she had collected hundreds, probably thousands, of postcards. Now Buller, a Newton resident raised in Winfield with her sister Mary Olson Beach, has just published a book of Loyette’s postcards, “Winfield,” one of the Postcard History Series from Arcadia Publishing.
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Thursday, March 12. 2015
Whatever the architecture blogs think, Miami did not discover great architecture just in the last ten to twenty years. We may not have always had Rem Koolhaas (although Rem's been connected to this town longer than you'd think), but we've always had beautiful environments, and outstanding buildings. Just look at these postcards of Miami and Miami Beach though the decades, from the Wolfsonian Museum's archives.
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Friday, March 6. 2015
Fred Eckhardt hails from Boyd and his postcards help him keep the good old days alive. He’s been collecting for 40 years. Eckhardt is on a quest to get a card from every town in Minnesota and South Dakota- that means stops at garage sales during his cross-country trips. It was during one of those stops at an Illinois farm nearly 30 years ago, that he found something unusual. “And then I saw these two cards. I don’t know anything about baseball cards. I asked the lady at the farm- how much? She said $5. I said, I’ll take a chance."
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Wednesday, February 25. 2015
SOMEONE, somewhere in South Devon has a very valuable work of art by an Oscar winner tucked away. In 2012, during Torbay's Art on the English Riviera exhibition, hundreds of secret postcards were decorated by artists, sports people, celebrities and students, and were then sold anonymously for £10 each to buyers who didn't know whose art they were buying.
At the time, a little known actor named Eddie Redmayne decorated a postcard for the occasion after accepting the challenge through a London film company. Now he's an Oscar winner for his portrayal of Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything — and that postcard is now worth a few bob.
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