Bird Nest Observation 2020Fig. 1. Security lights under an overhang make for safe, protected nesting spots, I’ve discovered so far. Mother robins seem to agree, for they’ve returned three years in a...
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...
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...
The National Palace was the largest and most elegant structure in San Salvador, capital of El Salvador, as postcards attest.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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