The next three bas-reliefs along the Folger’s north wall are Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and King Lear.
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Postcards of the Folger:
San Salvador’s National Palace in El Salvador:
The Power of Postcards
The National Palace was the largest and most elegant structure in San Salvador, capital of El Salvador, as postcards attest.
Picture Postcards of France III
During Covid, I find myself producing deltiological memoirs. (Deltiology is the study of postcards.) I hope you find the posts interesting and informative.
Postcards of the Folger:
Midsommer, Romeo and Ivliet, Merchant of VeniceThey Don’t Know How to Spell, No Nude!
On Aug. 2, 1929 the Folgers made known the plays and the scenes from Shakespeare’s plays they had selected for the bas-reliefs.
Picture Postcards of France II
I ended Picture Postcards of France I by promising the next deltiological stop in France would be Brittany. I lied. La Bretagne will have to wait. Because January 2021 will be one of the most devastating and trying months in our nation’s history, I thought some humor might help a wee bit.
Nitty-Gritty of Postcard Collecting, Part III
Read PART I | Read PART IIFeatures of Old Postcards Size & color Postcards very rarely carry a date printed on the cards. In this, they are unlike most postage stamps, and are...
Nitty-Gritty of Postcard Collecting, Part II
A postcard is generally “a 3- by 5-inch piece of thin paperboard with a picture on its face.” What do you do with your postcards? They come in different sizes and colors and types. The history of postcard production has been divided into different eras.
Nitty-Gritty of Postcard Collecting, Part I
Collecting in general Either you are a collector or you are not. It is one way to divide up the world. It is clearly a leisure activity, unless you are in the business. It is a hobby, a pastime, a...
Picture Postcards of France I
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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