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...
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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...
Ben Greet: “Thank God for Henry Clay Folger”
For the first 2020 post in the series “Postcards in the Folger Archives,” dear Collators, we’ll try something new. We’ll pick a friend of both Henry and Emily Folger and follow a timeline. This...
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...
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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