The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. “Not only for December greetings do I send…” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 18, 2023. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-5525-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 Continue reading December Greetings (1922)
This selection of vintage postcards is from the Holiday Postcards Collection in the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs of the New York Public Library. Since its creation in 1915, the Picture Collection has met the needs of New York’s large community of artists, illustrators, designers, teachers, students, and general researchers. Covering over 12,000 subjects, the Picture Collection is an … Continue reading Thanksgiving 2023 with Vintage Postcards
I recently received my first mail of any kind — the above-pictured postcard — in almost ONE YEAR! Thailand Post has had a dismal service record since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020 and it really seems to have gotten worse since last year. Of course, from around August until late October/early November 2022 most of Thailand experienced horrendous flooding which wiped away entire … Continue reading Kansas City Football 2023
Here we have one of my older Mexican postcards showing a street in the small city usually known as Taxco but more formally named Taxco de Alarcón, the administrative center of a municipality located in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Taxco is located in the north-central part of the state, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from the city of Iguala, 135 kilometers (84 miles) from the … Continue reading Street in Taxco, circa 1939
In 1880, Chao Muen Samuhjairaj submitted a letter to propose the opening of a post office in Thailand to King Chulalongkorn (King Rama V). The King agreed and appointed His Royal Highness Somdetch Phra Chao Nong Ya Tho Chao Fa Bhanurangsi Swangwong Krom Luang Bhanuphandhuwong Wordej as the first Director-General of the Post Department because of his experience in the distribution of a daily newspaper … Continue reading Evolution of the Thai Post Box
I recently blogged about a card received from Lviv during the current war. This is one that came to me seven and a half years ago using the Postcrossing system. Ironically, this card is also a product of the Farion line published in Lviv. Lviv (Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the sixth-largest in Ukraine, with a population of 717,510. It serves … Continue reading Postcrossing #UA-1314549: Greetings from the City of Lviv
Greenview is a village in Menard County, Illinois, United States. The population was 778 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Springfield, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. Greenview was laid out in October 1857, by Menard County pioneer Willian Engle, on land originally owned by Charles Montgomery in section 23 of township 19 north, range 6 west of the Third Principal Meridian. It was … Continue reading New Year’s Day 1913: Postcard from Greenview, Illinois U.S.A.
I do not have very many postcards cancelled on either New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day. The oldest that I do have are a few postcards found over the years all on the Ganzachen 1899 New Year 1900 green 5-pfennig Reichspost postal card. I have one unused copy and five that were posted from different cities in the German Empire on either December 31, … Continue reading New Year’s 1899/1900: Postcards from Germany
This is an interesting card bearing a ½p green Great Britain KEVII stamp which I recently bid for and won in an eBay auction for just £1.50 (plus another £2.30 shipping to Phuket). What makes this unusual — and potentially worth somewhat more than I paid for it — are the auxiliary markings: “Contrary to Regulations – 53” and a To Pay 1p handstamp. It … Continue reading Christmas Postcards: Shepton Mallet, England – “Contrary to Regulations”, 1909
Despite having a family history rooted in southwestern Russia with ancestors on my father’s side (wealthy landowners with ties to the aristocracy up until the 1917 Revolution) and strong connections in the Voronezh and Samara oblasts, I have come out in support of Ukraine during the ongoing conflict. I have a number of close friendships with people in the capital city of Kyiv and dotted … Continue reading Lviv, Ukraine: My Ukraine
Postcards to Phuket 