Showing posts with label 1912. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1912. Show all posts
Monday, May 30, 2016

Clara Harlowe Barton (1821 – 1912)

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Clara Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912), nicknamed "Angel of the Battlefield," was a Union nurse during the A...
Thursday, January 7, 2016

Buffaloes, Custer State Park, Black Hills, South Dakota

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Postcard US-3761486 to Germany is a vintage card showing Custer State Park, a state park and wildlife reserve in the Black Hills of sout...
Friday, April 10, 2015

Cherry Blossoms About to Reach Peak Bloom in D.C.

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The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the gift of 3020 cherry trees from Tokyo...
Sunday, August 3, 2014

Titanic Memorial Lighthouse

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Postcard  US-2849023 to Portugal shows the Titanic Memorial Lighthouse, at the entrance to the South Street Seaport in New York City, N...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Take Pride in America

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Postcard  US-2849038  to Texas was a 14-cent postal postcard issued by USPS in 1987. It features a mountain-lake scene with brilliant blu...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Fenway Park, Boston

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Postcard  US-2752817  from Oxford, MA shows the Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest Major League Baseball (MLB) ballpa...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Remembering Titanic, 102 Years Later

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Courtesy National Museums Northern Ireland Yesterday marks the 102nd anniversary of RMS Titanic's sinking in the North Atlantic Ocea...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Double Ten Day

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October 10 is the Double Ten Day that celebrates outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising in Hubei Province, China in 1911. It began with the loc...