April 2025 Day 1 Edinburgh to Paris At Waverley Station in time to get the 8 am LNER to Kings Cross – half an hour earlier than we have booked but this flexibility is the benefit of the Interrail pass. Enjoyable trip planning our stay in Dresden – the Military Museum and its modern extensionContinue reading “By train to Germany”
Author Archives: Undivided-back Postcard
Japan Notes
This page is designed to bring together information about Japanese publishers of undivided backs. There are four periods of Japanese cards up to the end of WWII: Period I. Undivided back: October 1900 to 27 March 1907 Period II. 1/3 divided back: 28 March 1907 to March 1918 Period III. 1/2 divided back: 郵便はかき: March 1918 to February 1933Continue reading “Japan Notes”
Feel better for having done it
What’s the most fun way to exercise? It doesn’t have to be fun to be fun .
It’s nice to be nice I increasingly think that being nice is both appreciated and reciprocated by others and its own reward.
The New York, Ontario and Western Railway, New York
PUBLISHED BY N.Y., O. & W. RY. The New York, Ontario and Western Railway, was a regional railroad founded in 1868. In 1866, the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad was chartered under the direction of Dewitt C. Littlejohn, who envisioned a railroad serving a direct connection from the docks opposite New York City to LakeContinue reading “The New York, Ontario and Western Railway, New York”
New Zealand Department of Tourist & Health Resorts
ISSUED BY THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF TOURIST & HEALTH RESORTS Benani White, del W R Bock, Sc. A D Willis, Lithographer, Wanganui, N.Z. Established in 1901, the New Zealand Department of Tourist & Health Resorts was the first national tourist organisation in the world. This department name is said to have been usedContinue reading “New Zealand Department of Tourist & Health Resorts”
Red Cross
British Red Cross and Order Of St. John BRITISH RED CROSS AND ORDER OF ST. JOHN This card was produced during the First World War by the Joint War Committee, consisting of the British Red Cross and the Order of St John. The International Red Cross The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement started in 1863 and wasContinue reading “Red Cross”
The Religious Tract Society, London
“THE GIRL’S OWN” PICTURE POST CARDS. The Religious Tract Society was a British evangelical Christian organization founded in 1799 and known for publishing a variety of popular religious and quasi-religious texts in the 19th century. The society engaged in charity as well as commercial enterprise, publishing books and periodicals for profit. The idea for theContinue reading “The Religious Tract Society, London”
Samuel Cupples Envelope Company
St Louis, Missouri, USA SAMUEL CUPPLES ENVELOPE CO ST LOUIS – NEW YORK STATIONERY LICENSEE Samuel Cupples (13 September 1831 to 6 January 1912) was one of the 13 children of James and Elizabeth Cupples who emigrated from County Down, Ireland. His father established a school in Pittsburgh but it is said that Cupples hadContinue reading “Samuel Cupples Envelope Company”
Military cards
Lord Methuen Lord Methuen and his Staff Field Marshal Paul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DL (1 September 1845 to 30 October 1932) was a British Army officer. He served in the Third Anglo-Ashanti War in 1873 and then in the expedition of Sir Charles Warren to Bechuanaland in the mid-1880s. He took a prominent role as General Officer Commanding the 1st Division in the Second BoerContinue reading “Military cards”
