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  2. Penny Penates - Wikipedia

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    The Penny Penates is a postcard that was posted on 14 July 1840 to Fulham in London. It was addressed to the writer and practical joker Theodore Hook, who was probably also its sender and artist. The hand-painted design on the postcard shows an image of post office clerks sitting around a giant ink well.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Postcard - Wikipedia

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    Postcards document the natural landscape as well as the built environment—buildings, gardens, parks, cemeteries, and tourist sites. They provide snapshots of societies at a time when few newspapers carried images. [16] Postcards provided a way for the general public to keep in touch with their friends and family, and required little writing. [16]

  5. Large-letter postcard - Wikipedia

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    The original postcards were "printed on linen-textured paper with a high rag content, allowing absorption of dyes from high-speed German lithographic presses," [3] thus large-letter postcards are usually a subtype of linen postcards, although the basic design existed earlier. [4] The postcards produced by Curt Teich (rhymes with "like") [5] and ...

  6. Art in the women's suffrage movement in the United States

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    The biggest publisher of "official" suffrage postcards was the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). [42] NAWSA created their own publishing company by 1913. [43] Overall, around 4,500 different postcard designs with women's suffrage themes were created. [44] Postcards could have text, illustrations, or even photographs. [45]

  7. Mail art - Wikipedia

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    Mail art has adopted and appropriated several of graphic forms already associated with the postal system. The rubber stamp officially used for franking mail, already utilized by Dada and Fluxus artists, has been embraced by mail artists who, in addition to reusing ready-made rubber stamps, have them professionally made to their own designs ...

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