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the History Reporter™: December 2013
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The History Reporter™. American history 1860 to 1960 as told in letters, diaries, photographs and memorabilia. Monday, December 23, 2013. It's the 170th Anniversary of the First Mass-Produced Christmas Card. This card is believed to be the very first mass-produced Christmas card. It was designed by English painter John Calcott Horsley for his friend Henry Cole. Courtesy of Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library. As a recent article in the Telegraph. MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Http:/ www&...
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the History Reporter™: December 2012
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The History Reporter™. American history 1860 to 1960 as told in letters, diaries, photographs and memorabilia. Thursday, December 27, 2012. Christmas Dinners, 1860-1960. Apologies if you follow my blog or even check in once-in-a-while. I haven't written a post since September. SEPTEMBER! That went by fast. Now it's the end of the year. Christmas has just past, but its spirit continues as the New Year approaches. Christmas dinners often consisted of a main meat or two - turkey, goose, partridge, chicken, ...
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the History Reporter™: A WWII Sailor's Voice Recorded in Song 65 Years Ago Today
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The History Reporter™. American history 1860 to 1960 as told in letters, diaries, photographs and memorabilia. Monday, June 6, 2011. A WWII Sailor's Voice Recorded in Song 65 Years Ago Today. Note: There are two videos with audio at the end of this post. The audio features Thomas Fowle singing two songs on a self-recorded album he sent to his mother. The video features images of the USS Bunker Hill CV-17 on which Fowle was stationed. Thomas J. Fowle was a 19-year-old sailor recovering. Thomas also spoke ...
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the History Reporter™: Wish You Were Here
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The History Reporter™. American history 1860 to 1960 as told in letters, diaries, photographs and memorabilia. Monday, April 6, 2015. Wish You Were Here. In December 1954, Marilyn from Battle Creek, MI opened her mailbox to find a colorful postcard sent from a man she knew who was vacationing at the Atlantic Towers in Miami Beach, Florida. This postcard was sent from Miami to Battle Creek in 1954. The man who mailed the postcard to Marilyn wrote:. Postcard to protect her and her family's privacy. My init...
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the History Reporter™: A Treasure Trove of Vintage Hollywood & Entertainment Publications
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The History Reporter™. American history 1860 to 1960 as told in letters, diaries, photographs and memorabilia. Tuesday, August 13, 2013. A Treasure Trove of Vintage Hollywood and Entertainment Publications. Recently, I stumbled across a link that brought me to the Media History Digital Library. Currently, items in the online archives date from the early 1900s to the early 1960s. Vintage issues of. Search the database using the site's Lantern search engine: http:/ lantern.mediahist.org/. A Treasure Trove ...
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the History Reporter™: June 2013
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The History Reporter™. American history 1860 to 1960 as told in letters, diaries, photographs and memorabilia. Friday, June 21, 2013. American History TV to Cover Gettysburg Sesquicentennial, June 30-July 4. The battle was also one of Civil War's most gruesome with 51,000 casualties. To commemorate Gettysburg's sesquicentennial, the National Park Service will be hosting several events and ceremonies June 30 - July 4. C-SPAN3 followers and fans are encouraged to use the Twitter hash tag #gettysburg150, wh...
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the History Reporter™: American History TV to Cover Gettysburg Sesquicentennial, June 30-July 4
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The History Reporter™. American history 1860 to 1960 as told in letters, diaries, photographs and memorabilia. Friday, June 21, 2013. American History TV to Cover Gettysburg Sesquicentennial, June 30-July 4. The battle was also one of Civil War's most gruesome with 51,000 casualties. To commemorate Gettysburg's sesquicentennial, the National Park Service will be hosting several events and ceremonies June 30 - July 4. C-SPAN3 followers and fans are encouraged to use the Twitter hash tag #gettysburg150, wh...
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the History Reporter™: It's the 170th Anniversary of the First Mass-Produced Christmas Card
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The History Reporter™. American history 1860 to 1960 as told in letters, diaries, photographs and memorabilia. Monday, December 23, 2013. It's the 170th Anniversary of the First Mass-Produced Christmas Card. This card is believed to be the very first mass-produced Christmas card. It was designed by English painter John Calcott Horsley for his friend Henry Cole. Courtesy of Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library. As a recent article in the Telegraph. MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Http:/ www&...
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the History Reporter™: July 2012
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The History Reporter™. American history 1860 to 1960 as told in letters, diaries, photographs and memorabilia. Thursday, July 19, 2012. Sarah in Scotland, July 19, 1909 - "Mama Goes to a Suffragette Meeting". This is one in a series of articles about 17-year-old Sarah Van Hoosen Jones and the diaries she kept detailing the events of her trip abroad in 1909-1910. Read more about this diary project. On July 19, 1909, Sarah wrote one simple sentence in her diary that spoke volumes. Based the UK. The com...