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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 ...
John Pizer (c. 1850–7 July 1897) was an English bootmaker in Whitechapel, London.He was the first person accused of being the perpetrator in the Whitechapel murders, but was cleared of suspicion after providing alibis for the two murders committed until that point.
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.
On 16 October, George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee received another letter, known as the "From Hell" letter, claiming to be from the killer. The handwriting and style were unlike that of the "Dear Boss" letter and "Saucy Jacky" postcard. The letter arrived with a small box containing half of a human kidney preserved in alcohol.
This is the epitome of "snail mail." Alan Marion of Phoenix, Oregon, received a letter addressed to his great grandmother Florence - written more than 70 years ago. The old mail arrived at a USPS ...
Facsimile of the front of the "Saucy Jacky" postcard. Postmarked and received on 1 October 1888, the postcard mentions that the two victims murdered on 30 September, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, were both killed in the early morning of 30 September and that the author had insufficient time to sever his victim's ears to send to the police as promised in a previous letter received by ...
Johnny Depp starred in a 2001 film version of From Hell, where he played Whitechapel police inspector Frederick Abberline in the midst of a race against time to stop Jack the Ripper's killings.
A. & G. Taylor was a British photographic business, and manufacturer of cabinet cards and cartes de visite, and later picture postcards. In 1866, the photographers Andrew Taylor (1832–1909) [1] and George Taylor opened their first studio in London's Cannon Street. They expanded to have 30 outlets in major British cities and some in the US.