"Stephen, thanks for this fascinating research. The images are particularly evocative of that time and place. As you well know, John D. Rockefeller sent missions to potential acquisitions or...
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Postcards in the Folger Archives: The 1879 Hyde Prize in Oratory at Amherst College
"I’m a longtime fan of both the literary treasures within the Folger, and its stunning Greco Deco exterior architecture. A friend alerted me to Stephen Grant’s scholarly yet utterly charming tale of...
Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, and the Henry Folgers
Emily Dickinson, Daguerreotype ca. 1847, Amherst College Archives & Special CollectionsIn 1874, Emily Dickinson wrote the poem: Dear March – Come in – How Glad I am – I hoped for you before –...
Postcards in the Folger Archives: British Sea Captain John Robinson and Henry Folger
"I thoroughly enjoy your Folger updates. I resonate with Uncle Henry and Aunt Emily’s pleasure at long and slow Atlantic sailings. Two years ago I crossed on Wind Star, a motorized sailing ship for...
Dakar 2005: An Exhibit of Old Postcards of Senegal, and Peter Strickland, American Consul on Gorée Island
Images & Memories (I&M) is a cultural organization founded in 1995 specializing in ancient and present-day iconography in 18 countries.
Greetings from Batavia: Postcards from the Dutch East Indies
Archipel is a journal of interdisciplinary studies on Insulindia (Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, East Timor), established in 1971, with particular attention...
The Wichita Postcards Club Newsletter
I don’t know about yours, but my mid-life crisis struck me in Africa in 1980. I was visiting my first exhibit of old picture postcards in the National Library of Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. I knew Ivory...
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