My Favorite Postcards
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This blog features thousands of Postcards from around the world, starting in the late 1800's. Postcards of images from around the world, famous people, movies, animals and more.
My Favorite Postcards
3M ago
Close to Juneau, Capital City of Alaska, is famed Mendenhall Glacier and equally scenic Auke Lake.
Dear Doctor:
Clinicians in Alaska, newest State in the Union, have long been acquainted with PENTOTHAL. Here as elsewhere, it is used both as a primary and a supplementary agent. 25 years of use and the exhaustive published articles, now numbering over 3000, provide an unsurpassed clinical background
Abbott
Pentothal Sodium
(Thiopental Sodium for Injection, Abbott)
This advertising postcard was postmarked in 1959.
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Alaska was admitted as the 49th state of t ..read more
My Favorite Postcards
4M ago
A Spaceman Surrounded by White Cats.
This was a Postcrossing Meet-up postcard mailed from Germany in 2023. I absolutely love it!
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My Favorite Postcards
5M ago
Happy Smurf
This cartoon postcard was postmarked in 2018 from Belgium. It has two Belgium 60th Anniversary Smurf stamps and a special Smurf postmark too!
Belgium (Belgique Belgie) stamp
The 60th Anniversary of the Smurfs, 1  ..read more
My Favorite Postcards
6M ago
When Johnny Comes marching Home!
The men will cheer, the boys will shout.
The ladies they will all turn out
And we'll all feel gay
When Johnny comes marching home.
This vintage postcard is unused.
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The lyrics to "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" were written by Patrick Gilmore during the American Civil War. Its first sheet music publication was deposited in the Library of Congress on September 26, 1863, with words and music credited to Louis Lambert.
Gilmore is said to have written the song for his sister Annie as she prayed for the safe return of her fiancé, Union L ..read more
My Favorite Postcards
7M ago
This Yummy Yummy postcard was sent in 2023 to me from Mexico! It is an official Postcrossing Postcard.  ..read more
My Favorite Postcards
8M ago
Mae West, Hollywood 1969
Photograph by Roddy Mcdowell
This unused postcard was printed in 1980.
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Mary Jane "Mae" West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades. The American Film Institute named her 15th among the greatest female stars of classic American cinema.
West often used a husky low voice and was one of the more controversial movie stars of her day; she encountered many problems, especially censorship. She once quipped, "I believe in ce ..read more
My Favorite Postcards
8M ago
History of the Pentagon
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense. Located in Arlington, Virginia it sits on 34 acres of land including the five acre center court.
Construction began on September 11, 1941 and was completed on January 15, 1943.
The sender writes: Greetings from inside the Pentagon! Some of the highlights of today were seeing the 9/11 memorial chapel, the chiefs of staff offices and standing inside one of the offices that took a direct hit on 9/11 and was re-built. What an amazing experience it was!
This was postm ..read more
My Favorite Postcards
10M ago
Greetings From
West Virginia
Mountain State
Capitol: Charleston
Area: 24,181 square miles
Population: 1,860,421 *
Motto: Montani Semper Libera-dendron. **
Flower: Rosebay Rhododendron
Bird: Cardinal
Tree: Sugar Maple
Animal: Black Bear
35th state admitted to the Union ***
* This was the population in the mid-1970's when this postcard was probably printed. It has actually gone down a bit and is now 1,815,857
** Montani Semper Liberi is Latin for "Mountaineers are Always Free"
*** It was admitted on June 20, 1863.
This is an unused 'Dexter Press' postcard ..read more