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  2. History of postcards in the United States - Wikipedia

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    "Greetings from Chicago, Illinois" large-letter postcard produced by Curt Teich The history of postcards is part of the cultural history of the United States. Especially after 1900, "the postcard was wildly successful both as correspondence and collectible" and thus postcards are valuable sources for cultural historians as both a form of epistolary literature and for the bank of cultural ...

  3. Detroit Publishing Company - Wikipedia

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    A restored photochrom print of Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California, developed from a photograph by William Henry Jackson, c. 1900. The Detroit Publishing Company was started by publisher William A. Livingstone and photographer Edwin H. Husher in the late 19th century as the Detroit Photographic Company, it later became The Detroit Photochrom Company, and it was not until 1905 that the ...

  4. Tichnor Brothers - Wikipedia

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    Tichnor and Curt Teich were rivals; in at least one case Curt Teich managers wanted to copy a view from a Tichnor postcard. [3] The Tichnor Bros. archives, a valuable source for American architectural and cultural history, are held at Boston Public Library , which has also posted thousands of free-use images online at their Digital Commonwealth ...

  5. Postage stamps and postal history of the United States

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    Some are quite rare, but many are extremely common; this was the era of the postcard craze, and almost every antique shop in the U.S. will have some postcards with green 1¢ or red 2¢ stamps from this series. In 1910 the Post Office began phasing out the double-lined watermark, replacing it by the same U S P S logo in smaller single-line letters.

  6. Curt Teich - Wikipedia

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    Curt Teich Postcard Dating Guide, from the Newberry; Curt Teich postcards in the Bowden Postcard Collection Online, Walter Havighurst Special Collections in the Miami University Libraries; Curt Teich Co., 1898-1978 Archived 2019-08-21 at the Wayback Machine, Metropostcard.com; Jim Craig. The Picture Postcard King - Curt Otto Teich, December 30 ...

  7. Harold Alfond - Wikipedia

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    Dexter continued to grow rapidly throughout the 1970s and 1980s and from time to time, corporate suitors came calling to see whether they could entice Dexter into a marriage. Many were national retail chains that promised rapid expansion, but would emphasize foreign production and likely, a departure from Dexter's family style of running the ...

  8. Fultonhistory.com - Wikipedia

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    Fultonhistory.com (also known as Old Fulton New York Postcards) is an archival historic newspaper website of over 1,000 New York newspapers, along with collections from other states and Canada. As of February 2018, the website had almost 50 million scanned newspaper pages.

  9. Perfect Match (Australian game show) - Wikipedia

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    After this the partner with the highest "compatibility score", based on responses to interview questions prior to the game, specially calculated by a computerized robot called Dexter, would be revealed. If the contestant's selection had the highest "compatibility score", both the contestant and selected match won a bonus prize.