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In 1905, Hall and his brothers invested US$540 to buy picture postcards to sell to store owners and other dealers around their area. They also convinced some of the traveling salesmen who came into the Halls' bookstore, which Joyce Hall's older brothers bought with a partner in 1902, to add the postcards to their sales territories. [ 4 ]
The next year, Rollie bought out the store's non-family business partner and it became "Hall Brothers", doing business as the Hall Book Store. The postcard business soon outgrew the store's resources, and Joyce moved it to Kansas City in 1910. By 1912, the postcard craze had faded and the company had begun selling "Christmas letters" and ...
The Halle Brothers Co. (1891–1982) was considered the leading department store company in Cleveland, Ohio.Founded on 7 February 1891, by brothers Samuel Horatio Halle and Salmon Portland Chase Halle, the very first store was located at 221 Superior Avenue near the city's Public Square where the brothers had bought out a hat and furrier shop owned by T.S. Paddock.
H.K. Hall a 1,237-ton five-masted schooner, was launched here in 1902. [5] "Between 1881 and 1904, the Hall Brothers launched 77 vessels of every size and rig, including barks, barkentines, three-, four-, and five-masted schooners, steamers, a tug, a government revenue cutter and several yachts.
Donald Joyce Hall was born on July 9, 1928, in Kansas City, Missouri, to Elizabeth Ann (née Dilday) and Joyce Hall. His father was the founder and president of Hallmark Cards. [2] [3] [4] He graduated from Pembroke-Country Day School. In 1946, he worked as a sales trainee and later as an assistant salesman for Hallmark.
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 ...
Postcrossing is an online project for people to exchange postcards with other project members globally. The project's tag line is "send a postcard and receive a postcard back from a random person somewhere in the world!" [2] The name Postcrossing is a union of the words postcard and crossing, and its origin "is loosely based on the Bookcrossing ...
Bernhardt Wall self-portrait, 1921 (etching) "You needn't wait for September Morn to show up", a postcard by Wall following the controversy over Paul Chabas' painting September Morn Bernhardt Wall (December 29, 1872 – February 9, 1956) was an American etcher, illustrator, commercial artist, lithographer, craftsman, teacher and historian.