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True Stories That Never Happened

Edited by Jason Rodriguez ...

“The inventive writers and illustrators who crafted these transporting stories just may convince you to trash your BlackBerry and buy some stamps.”–Frank Warren, author of PostSecretYou’ve seen them at flea markets and in antique shops and used-book stores across the country: Vintage postcards inscribed with handwritten notes, evocative messages that capture a thought, an expression, a concern, a ... Read more

$4.99 USD

“The inventive writers and illustrators who crafted these transporting stories just may convince you to trash your BlackBerry and buy some stamps.”–Frank Warren, author of PostSecretYou’ve seen them at flea markets and in antique shops and used-book stores across the country: Vintage postcards inscribed with handwritten notes, evocative messages that capture a thought, an expression, a concern, a
... Read more
The Post Office Girls

Book One in a heartwarming and uplifting new wartime saga series

by Poppy Cooper ...

With the Great War raging, can they keep Britain going?On Beth Healey's eighteenth birthday, she hopes that she will be able to forget the ghastly war and celebrate. But that evening, her twin brother Ned announces that he has signed up to fight.No longer able to stand working in her parents' village shop while others are doing their bit, Beth applies to join the Army Post Office's new Home Depot ... Read more

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With the Great War raging, can they keep Britain going?On Beth Healey's eighteenth birthday, she hopes that she will be able to forget the ghastly war and celebrate. But that evening, her twin brother Ned announces that he has signed up to fight.No longer able to stand working in her parents' village shop while others are doing their bit, Beth applies to join the Army Post Office's new Home Depot
... Read more
Postcard America

Curt Teich and the Imaging of a Nation, 1931–1950

by Jeffrey L. Meikle ...

This illustrated history of the colorized linen postcards of the 1930s and '40s is " an incredible tour . . . A veritable treasure trove of American culture" ( Crave Online).From the Great Depression through the early postwar years, any postcard sent in America was more than likely a "linen" card. Colorized in vivid, often exaggerated hues and printed on card stock embossed with a linen-like ... Read more

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This illustrated history of the colorized linen postcards of the 1930s and '40s is " an incredible tour . . . A veritable treasure trove of American culture" ( Crave Online).From the Great Depression through the early postwar years, any postcard sent in America was more than likely a "linen" card. Colorized in vivid, often exaggerated hues and printed on card stock embossed with a linen-like
... Read more
God Jul

A Swedish Christmas

by Anders Neumuller ...

Explore the history, customs, and folklore of Swedish Christmas with this collection of 300 colorful postcards dating back to the 1800s.The charm, warmth, and beauty of a Swedish Christmas is captured in this remarkable collection of 300 colorful, fun, and historic postcards dating back to the 1800s. Each postcard reveals the magic behind Christmas and of Scandinavian tradition and folklore. Learn ... Read more

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Explore the history, customs, and folklore of Swedish Christmas with this collection of 300 colorful postcards dating back to the 1800s.The charm, warmth, and beauty of a Swedish Christmas is captured in this remarkable collection of 300 colorful, fun, and historic postcards dating back to the 1800s. Each postcard reveals the magic behind Christmas and of Scandinavian tradition and folklore. Learn
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San Luis Obispo and Cal Poly in Vintage Postcards

by Thomas Maxwell-Long ...

Series series Postcard History Series
Along the California coastline lies the community of San Luis Obispo; a town just as rich in history as it is in beauty. Situated almost directly between Los Angeles and San Francisco, San Luis Obispo was first inhabited by the Chumash and Salinan Indians in 1400 B.C. It took almost 3,000 years before its majestic landscape was encountered byEuropean explorers. ... Read more

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Along the California coastline lies the community of San Luis Obispo; a town just as rich in history as it is in beauty. Situated almost directly between Los Angeles and San Francisco, San Luis Obispo was first inhabited by the Chumash and Salinan Indians in 1400 B.C. It took almost 3,000 years before its majestic landscape was encountered byEuropean explorers.
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Augusta

by Roger A. Madore ...

Series series Postcard History Series
Built in 1754 on the eastern bank of the Kennebec River, Fort Western became one of the first permanent settlements in what would eventually become Augusta and, in 1827, the capital of Maine. Through innovations in publishing by Gannett & Morse and Vickery & Hill, textiles by the Edwards Manufacturing Company, and lumber production along the Kennebec, Augusta thrived and prospered. Water Street ... Read more

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Built in 1754 on the eastern bank of the Kennebec River, Fort Western became one of the first permanent settlements in what would eventually become Augusta and, in 1827, the capital of Maine. Through innovations in publishing by Gannett & Morse and Vickery & Hill, textiles by the Edwards Manufacturing Company, and lumber production along the Kennebec, Augusta thrived and prospered. Water Street
... Read more
Saugerties

by Marjorie Fallows Block ...

Series series Postcard History Series
Saugerties, nestled between Esopus Creek and the Hudson River on one side and the Catskill Mountains on the other, is an old village first settled by the Dutch. Following the opening of the Erie Canal, industrialist Henry Barclay set into motion plans to use the area's waterpower to turn Saugerties into an industrial community. The village became home to the Ulster Iron Works and Barclay's paper ... Read more

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Saugerties, nestled between Esopus Creek and the Hudson River on one side and the Catskill Mountains on the other, is an old village first settled by the Dutch. Following the opening of the Erie Canal, industrialist Henry Barclay set into motion plans to use the area's waterpower to turn Saugerties into an industrial community. The village became home to the Ulster Iron Works and Barclay's paper
... Read more
Vanishing Los Angeles County

by Cory Stargel, Sarah Stargel ...

Series series Postcard History Series
Home to more than 10 million people, modern Los Angeles County bears little resemblance to the largely agricultural landscape, dotted with small towns, of just over a century ago. Los Angeles County has surged forward on a path of phenomenal growth and constant transformation. Over this course, much of what was both famous and familiar to Angelenos 100 or even 50 years ago has been lost in the ... Read more

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Home to more than 10 million people, modern Los Angeles County bears little resemblance to the largely agricultural landscape, dotted with small towns, of just over a century ago. Los Angeles County has surged forward on a path of phenomenal growth and constant transformation. Over this course, much of what was both famous and familiar to Angelenos 100 or even 50 years ago has been lost in the
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Seattle

by Mark Sundquist ...

Series series Postcard History Series
The Puget Sound region was inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years before settlers arrived. After initially landing at Alki Beach in West Seattle, the Denny Party established a settlement on the eastern shores of Elliott Bay in 1852. For years, the cultural and commercial life centered around Yesler's Wharf and Sawmill. The city grew rapidly following the 1870s after the discovery of ... Read more

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The Puget Sound region was inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years before settlers arrived. After initially landing at Alki Beach in West Seattle, the Denny Party established a settlement on the eastern shores of Elliott Bay in 1852. For years, the cultural and commercial life centered around Yesler's Wharf and Sawmill. The city grew rapidly following the 1870s after the discovery of
... Read more
Old Beijing

Postcards from the Imperial City

by Felicitas Titus ...

This collection of rare and vintage postcards offers a unique look at a vanished China and its storied capital.Comprising 355 black-and-white and hand-tinted Beijing photography postcards that span the period from the last years of Imperial China to the Japanese invasion of 1937, it is a treasure trove for buffs of Beijing history, collectors, Sinophiles, and anyone fascinated by people and ... Read more

$7.82 USD

This collection of rare and vintage postcards offers a unique look at a vanished China and its storied capital.Comprising 355 black-and-white and hand-tinted Beijing photography postcards that span the period from the last years of Imperial China to the Japanese invasion of 1937, it is a treasure trove for buffs of Beijing history, collectors, Sinophiles, and anyone fascinated by people and
... Read more
St. Tammany Parish Postcards

A Glimpse Back in Time

by Ashleigh Austin ...

Series series Parish Histories
In St. Tammany Parish Postcards: A Glimpse Back in Time, Louisiana native Ashleigh Austin presents more than one hundred vintage postcards from her extensive personal collection. These images, originally published from the 1900s to the 1960s, capture many familiar sights and landmarks from this historic region north of New Orleans.From the several bridges spanning Lake Pontchartrain to gone-but ... Read more

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In St. Tammany Parish Postcards: A Glimpse Back in Time, Louisiana native Ashleigh Austin presents more than one hundred vintage postcards from her extensive personal collection. These images, originally published from the 1900s to the 1960s, capture many familiar sights and landmarks from this historic region north of New Orleans.From the several bridges spanning Lake Pontchartrain to gone-but
... Read more
Open Letters

Russian Popular Culture and the Picture Postcard, 1880–1922

by Alison Rowley ...

During the fin-de-siècle and early revolutionary eras, picture postcards were an important medium of communication for Russians of all backgrounds. In Open Letters, the most comprehensive study of Russian picture postcards to date, Alison Rowley uses this medium to explore a variety of aspects of Russian popular culture. The book is lavishly illustrated with more than 130 images, most of which ... Read more

$27.89 USD

During the fin-de-siècle and early revolutionary eras, picture postcards were an important medium of communication for Russians of all backgrounds. In Open Letters, the most comprehensive study of Russian picture postcards to date, Alison Rowley uses this medium to explore a variety of aspects of Russian popular culture. The book is lavishly illustrated with more than 130 images, most of which
... Read more
Postcard Collector

by barbara Andrews ...

An exciting overview of the manufacturers, design and subject matter used in 19th and 20th century American postcards. ... Read more

$9.99 USD

An exciting overview of the manufacturers, design and subject matter used in 19th and 20th century American postcards.
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Greetings from San Antonio

Historic Postcards of the Alamo City

by Lewis F. Fisher ...

At the dawn of the twentieth century, just as color postcards were becoming a worldwide sensation, San Antonio bypassed Dallas as the largest city in Texas. Idyllic postcard images of San Antonio began landing in mailboxes across the country, displaying recently gained wealth and prosperity. Greetings from San Antonio: Historic Postcards of the Alamo City is a collection of more than six hundred ... Read more

$14.93 USD

At the dawn of the twentieth century, just as color postcards were becoming a worldwide sensation, San Antonio bypassed Dallas as the largest city in Texas. Idyllic postcard images of San Antonio began landing in mailboxes across the country, displaying recently gained wealth and prosperity. Greetings from San Antonio: Historic Postcards of the Alamo City is a collection of more than six hundred
... Read more
Authorized Images, Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards

Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Gatenby ...

Series Book 21 - Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards, Spotlight Edition
Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage PostcardsWalt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:American postcard publishers were generally very good in honouring their nation's most celebrated authors by providing buyers with a plethora of picture postcards featuring busts of the writers or images of their homes or other views somehow related to their lives ... Read more

$12.86 USD

Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage PostcardsWalt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:American postcard publishers were generally very good in honouring their nation's most celebrated authors by providing buyers with a plethora of picture postcards featuring busts of the writers or images of their homes or other views somehow related to their lives
... Read more
Authorized Images, Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards

Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro Aretino

by Gatenby ...

Series Book 23 - Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards, Spotlight Edition
Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage PostcardsLudovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro AretinoThis quartet of classic Italian literary masters features the majority of antique and vintage postcards related to each author. The largest selection belongs to Boccaccio, long the most popular of these writers, both with Italians and foreigners, his ... Read more

$17.09 USD

Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage PostcardsLudovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro AretinoThis quartet of classic Italian literary masters features the majority of antique and vintage postcards related to each author. The largest selection belongs to Boccaccio, long the most popular of these writers, both with Italians and foreigners, his
... Read more
Authorized Images, Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards

James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen Bryant

by Greg Gatenby ...

Series Book 16 - Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards, Spotlight Edition
Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen BryantIn any census of the pioneers of American literature, these three will always have a position of honour. Cooper's Leatherstocking novels (e.g., Last of the Mohicans) were the first USA fictions to find a wide readership in Europe. Poe's reputation took longer to ... Read more

$12.86 USD

Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen BryantIn any census of the pioneers of American literature, these three will always have a position of honour. Cooper's Leatherstocking novels (e.g., Last of the Mohicans) were the first USA fictions to find a wide readership in Europe. Poe's reputation took longer to
... Read more
Authorized Images, Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards

J.M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Agatha Christie

by Gatenby ...

Series Book 22 - Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards, Spotlight Edition
Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: J.M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Agatha ChristieJ.M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Agatha Christie: Literary Chronicles in Antique Postcards- Though best known today for his creation Peter Pan, in his day J.M. Barrie was renowned as much for other stage works and his fiction-with the result he was a popular subject of postcards in his ... Read more

$17.09 USD

Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: J.M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Agatha ChristieJ.M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Agatha Christie: Literary Chronicles in Antique Postcards- Though best known today for his creation Peter Pan, in his day J.M. Barrie was renowned as much for other stage works and his fiction-with the result he was a popular subject of postcards in his
... Read more
Authorized Images, Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards

Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte

by Greg Gatenby ...

Series Book 25 - Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards, Spotlight Edition
Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage PostcardsJane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte:Women writers in the Victorian and Edwardian eras were sometimes widely read but almost never seen or heard. They did not give public readings of their work or appear in bookshops signing autographed copies of their wares. These low profiles were reflected in the ... Read more

$17.09 USD

Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage PostcardsJane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte:Women writers in the Victorian and Edwardian eras were sometimes widely read but almost never seen or heard. They did not give public readings of their work or appear in bookshops signing autographed copies of their wares. These low profiles were reflected in the
... Read more
Authorized Images, Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards

Colette and Anatole France

by Greg Gatenby ...

Series Book 8 - Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards, Spotlight Edition
Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Colette and Anatole FranceCustom Vintage Themed Thanksgiving Greeting Cards- A cornucopia of postcards depicting the notorious French author as she was in old age, accompanied by several images of her when she was lithe, naughty, and unambiguous about her delight in both men and women. ... Read more

$12.86 USD

Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Colette and Anatole FranceCustom Vintage Themed Thanksgiving Greeting Cards- A cornucopia of postcards depicting the notorious French author as she was in old age, accompanied by several images of her when she was lithe, naughty, and unambiguous about her delight in both men and women.
... Read more
San Pedro

by Joe McKinzie ...

Series series Postcard History Series
Arcadia Publishing's second collection of postcard images concerning the Los Angeles Harbor community of San Pedro follows the 2005 Postcard History Series volume San Pedro Bay. Where that work concentrated on the harbor and water aspects of the colloquially known 'Peedro,' this new volume looks at the town and its development, buildings, businesses, streetscapes, and residences. The port village ... Read more

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Arcadia Publishing's second collection of postcard images concerning the Los Angeles Harbor community of San Pedro follows the 2005 Postcard History Series volume San Pedro Bay. Where that work concentrated on the harbor and water aspects of the colloquially known 'Peedro,' this new volume looks at the town and its development, buildings, businesses, streetscapes, and residences. The port village
... Read more
Alexandria

by Barbara Grover ...

Series series Postcard History Series
Alexandria is situated near the center of Douglas County, surrounded by a chain of beautiful lakes. These lakes brought pioneer settlers to the area as early as 1858, when Minnesota achieved statehood and the town was established. The lakes remain a key factor that continue to draw residents and visitors. The images in Postcard History Series: Alexandria tell the community's story, recalling fond ... Read more

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Alexandria is situated near the center of Douglas County, surrounded by a chain of beautiful lakes. These lakes brought pioneer settlers to the area as early as 1858, when Minnesota achieved statehood and the town was established. The lakes remain a key factor that continue to draw residents and visitors. The images in Postcard History Series: Alexandria tell the community's story, recalling fond
... Read more
Ventura

by Glenda J. Jackson ...

Series series Postcard History Series
The city of Ventura traces its heritage back to the founding of Mission San Buenaventura in March 1782. The intervening eras have seen cattle drives down Main Street, revival tents in the marshy area now known as Pierpont, and the days when the Ventura trolley was the quickest way around town. The attractive images in this postcard tour through bygone times also include the stately Schiappapietra ... Read more

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The city of Ventura traces its heritage back to the founding of Mission San Buenaventura in March 1782. The intervening eras have seen cattle drives down Main Street, revival tents in the marshy area now known as Pierpont, and the days when the Ventura trolley was the quickest way around town. The attractive images in this postcard tour through bygone times also include the stately Schiappapietra
... Read more
Billings

by James M. Reich ...

Series series Postcard History Series
Billings is sometimes called 'The Magic City' for its rapid growth that seems to change the skyline overnight. Located in the heart of the Yellowstone Valley, it is Montana's largest city and the state's premier business destination. From 1900 to the 1960s'Billings's 'Golden Years''locals and tourists alike enjoyed a variety of hotels, fine restaurants, and retail and wholesale shopping, while ... Read more

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Billings is sometimes called 'The Magic City' for its rapid growth that seems to change the skyline overnight. Located in the heart of the Yellowstone Valley, it is Montana's largest city and the state's premier business destination. From 1900 to the 1960s'Billings's 'Golden Years''locals and tourists alike enjoyed a variety of hotels, fine restaurants, and retail and wholesale shopping, while
... Read more

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