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...
As I write this blog post in March, 2022, the world is riveted on Ukraine’s struggle to protect itself against an invasion from its much larger neighbor, Russia. 1991 started out in a deadly and...
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...
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...
While on business trips out west in 1910, Standard Oil Co. executive Henry Folger sends postcards to his wife. The messages are hilarious!
The news came from Washington DC in a 1982 State Department cable signed SHULTZ: “STEPHEN GRANT IS ASSIGNED TO CAIRO AS EDUCATION OFFICER.”
The Minangkabau region in west Sumatra, Indonesia as depicted in sepia postcards of the 1930s and evoking author Rusli Amran.
The thematic series I started Aug. 12, 2019, “Postcards in the Folger Archives,” has come to a pause.
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