When I was a French major at Amherst College in the early 1960s, I had NO IDEA a half-century later I would be double billed as Biographer/Deltiologist. I wrote the first biography or life story of...
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Emily Jordan Folger’s Deltiological Profile
UPDATED with a NEWS FLASHIt would be more than a stretch to claim that Henry and Emily Folger were deltiologists, that is, as Collins Dictionary reminds us, persons who collect and study picture...
Salvadoran Postcards & Libraries
Where were you for Y2K, at the change of millennia from 1999 to 2000? I was in El Salvador as deputy leader of the economic growth strategic team at USAID/San Salvador in El Salvador, Central...
No Standard Oil Company? No Shakespeare Collection!
"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...
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...
Collecting During COVID or the Power of a Postcard
Stephen H. Grant joined the Arlington Neighborhood Village (ANV) in 2015. For those that might not be familiar with the organization, reading the Mission Statement is a good place to begin:...
The Stephen H. Grant Postcard Collection Digitization Project
The Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives (EEPA), National Museum of African Art announced The Stephen Grant Postcard Collection Digitization Project, a collaborative cataloguing and digitization...
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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