This is a rare (the only?) postcard depicting portraits of a Salvadoran President and Vice-President. The distributor of the card was Max Rosenblum, German merchant established in San Salvador and...
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This post brings alive the launch of my first biography fifteen years ago, on Jan. 29, 2007. My son, Yonel, a transportation engineer, flew in from San Francisco and videotaped my introductory...
Postales Salvadoreñas del Ayer/Early Salvadoran Postcards
People of my generation remember where they were when they heard of JFK’s assassination and of the 9/11 attacks. Few recall where they were the day Y2K occurred. While the last month of 1999 will be...
One hundred and seven years ago, in 1914, Henry Folger received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Amherst College. The citation read: “Henry Clay Folger, a graduate of this college in 1879,...
Enrico Massi is an important enough figure in the history of El Salvador to have had a postage stamp issued in his name: in 1983 a ten-centavo stamp in the series “Salvadoran Air Force 50th...
We pick up from the series of picture postcards Henry Folger sent to his wife Emily in Brooklyn during his Standard Oil Company business trips to western states in 1910. The Truckee River flows...
Some of us more than others pay attention to punctuation: Folgers or Folger’s? However, we all recognize a rhyme when we hear it: The best part of waking upIs Folgers in your cup! My first major...
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