It started for Peter Keyes the same way it does for many postcard collectors: with just one._ The Newbury resident, a retired high school history and economics teacher from Massachusetts, was ...
Robert Drew has never met a postcard he didn't like. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Perhaps that's why he owns more than 250,000 postcards, believed to be one of the largest private ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week’s column mentioned postcards in passing. I love postcards and have mentioned them in various contexts several times over ...
NEW YORK — Marilyn Stern held out a black-and-white postcard of a baby panda from 1948. “What’s interesting to me is that it says, ‘Most valuable captive animal,'” said Stern, one of a few dozen ...
Fifteen years ago Bill Schaal, a friend of John Lawson, gave him his first postcard. The card was of an old scene from Hampton, where Lawson grew up. At that moment, Lawson fell in love with ...
Members of the Hampton Roads Postcard Club celebrate the area’s heritage with rare collectibles. The members of the Hampton Roads Postcard Club believe that you don’t need a big frame to show someone ...
Since 1979, the Half Moon Postcard Club has held its annual show and sale as a fundraiser for local food pantries, charitable organizations and area historical societies. "We don't keep anything," ...
Postcard collector Clarissa Ferraris in her Columbia, Md., home office with some of her collection. She's been collecting postcards since she was 13 and recently helped create an online database of ...
When Karen Martin started collecting postcards, her mother was surprised that anyone would consider these cards — which sold for a penny or two in their heyday — worth saving, much less studying and ...
A snapshot in time can tell a long-forgotten story of bygone days. Old photos and postcards are an irreplaceable asset to historical societies, archivists and genealogists. For Mark Jacobson, a ...