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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 ...
In the 1870s there was a hotel nearby and guests would walk a trail to see the site, often referred to as a "bottomless pit". [1] There were also many fanciful stories about a demon being trapped in a cave below. [2] It appeared in postcards and was somewhat of a local natural wonder. It's now completely surrounded by private property.
1870 issue. The postage stamps issued in the 1870s and 1880s are collectively known as the "Bank Notes" because they were produced by the National Bank Note Company, the Continental Bank Note Company, then the American Bank Note Company. After the 1869 fiasco with pictorial stamp issues, the new Postmaster-General decided to base a series of ...
In Japan today, two particular idiosyncratic postcard customs exist: New Year's Day postcards (年賀状, nengajō) and return postcard s (往復はがき, ōfuku-hagaki). New Year's Day postcards serve as greeting cards , similar to Western Christmas cards , while return postcards function similarly to a self-addressed stamped envelope ...
Hell's Half Acre was a precinct of Fort Worth, Texas designated as a red-light district beginning in the early to mid 1870s in the Old Wild West. [1] It came to be called the town's "Bloody Third ward " because of the violence and lawlessness in the area.
Charles Allen Lechmere was born on 5 October 1849, [4] [5] in Soho. [1] [6] [7] [8] He was the son of John Allen Lechmere and Maria Louisa Roulson.[9] [10] His father was a boot-maker [11] who deserted the family, and moved to Northamptonshire when Charles was very young.
Owing to the larger image size, the cabinet card steadily increased in popularity during the second half of the 1860s and into the 1870s, replacing the carte de visite as the most popular form of portraiture. The cabinet card was large enough to be easily viewed from across the room when typically displayed on a cabinet, which is probably why ...
The 1870s (pronounced "eighteen-seventies") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1870, and ended on December 31, 1879. The trends of the previous decade continued into this one, as new empires , imperialism and militarism rose in Europe and Asia .