THEY'D been propped on our bookcases for years: funny postcards, including some of the Nixons, but one day I stopped and really looked at the badly colorized profile shot of Mrs. Nixon and her daughter Tricia.
What impels Dr. Alfred Scherzer of Hampton Bays, N.Y., to travel to Somalia to gaze at maribou storks, or Donald Wayne of Piscataway, N.J., to amass 100,000 postcards, including one made out of kangaroo skin?
For example, the postcards included questions related to attitudes towards their lives and technology, which participants could respond to and post back.
In particular, the places you're likely to find postcards include: Stores that sell magazines, newspapers, stationery, candies, etc. will often carry modern, current postcards.
Things of importance when collecting any paper collectible such as postcards include condition, age, anything interesting about the postcard such as its age, the artist/ photographer, the image, sometimes the printer, and the postcard's rarity.
Sincerely's Postagram once allowed you to send out free, ad-supported postcards that include a photo.
Also numerous are views of the Bay of Naples, a grand-tour favorite, including a postcard-size ink drawing by Goethe.
It also includes lesser-known papers, including a postcard to his ailing mother, private correspondence with his lovers, and a pile of fanmail Einstein received about his wild hairdo.
And there, outside the room where the theory of general relativity is on display, are a few more of his papers, including a postcard he sent to his mother in 1919 after a British astronomer confirmed during an eclipse one of Einstein's key predictions.
The Move, "Vote for Me" (1968) "Vote for Me" was originally scheduled to be the B-side of "Cherry Blossom Clinic," but the band's previous single, "Flowers in the Rain," was promoted with a postcard that included a nude caricature of the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
