Postcards at Troynovant:
minimalist sendings by courier,
that is, flat-carded Scenes of Passage;
in the older manner sent & reviewed in Private
though carried by the Public post;
listed by Title / Location & Date
Postcards listed below have their own pages. Many other postcards feature as illustrations on other content or index pages at Troynovant, and are not listed here, but sometimes a postcard-as-illustration also will have a link to a page of its own. Most postcard views are click-to-enlarge; these with their own pages show both sides.
Dates denote when a postcard was addressed or postmarked. Often the card was printed significantly earlier, as for instance pre-war cards mailed during or after World War II, or souvenir or antique cards which sometimes are mailed long afterward. Written cards that are not stamped or postmarked were mailed within envelopes. In transcribing text: punctuation and certain capitalization may be adjusted, and typos silently corrected, but contemporary or individual usage is respected.
... I says, "I draw my own conclusions and will continue in the future to draw them." I says, "If people want to write their inmost secrets on penny postcards, there's nothing in the wide world you can do about it, Uncle Rondo."
Eudora Welty
"Why I Live at the P.O." (1941)
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Aerial Cableway, Niagara Falls
Postcard, 18 July 1936 |
DL Franson,
WR Franson |
Angel's Flight, Los Angeles
Postcard, 21 August 1952 |
VH Franson |
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Badlands, South Dakota
Postcard, 12 October 1931 |
R Franson |
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Capitol Oil Wells, Oklahoma City
Postcard, 14 May 1946 |
WR Franson |
Casa Diego Colon, Trujillo, Dominican Republic
Postcard, 25 July 1936 |
VH Franson |
Coolidge Summer White House
Postcard, aoa 13 August 1928 |
VH Franson |
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Dear Unknown Friend
Postcard, 21 December 1922 |
VH Franson |
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Hitler in Warsaw; Birthday in Krakau
Postcard, 20 April 1941 |
RW Franson |
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Jolly Halloween: I wonder!
Postcard, 31 October 1923 |
VH Franson |
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Mailomat, New York City
Postcard, 16 September 1944 |
DL Franson |
Milwaukee City Hall
Postcard, 25 May 1945 |
VH Franson |
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U.S. Highway 101, San Diego Coast
Postcard, 16 July 1938 |
WR Franson |
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Wiesbaden Stadtschloss
Postcard, 18 July 1945 |
DL Franson |
Wiesbaden-Biebrich
Postcard, 8 September 1945 |
DL Franson |
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To Wilfred R. Franson
Charleston Army Air Field, South Carolina
Letter, 13 March 1944 |
VH Franson |
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[Scotland. An open place.]
Ross:
The King hath happily received, Macbeth,
The news of thy success, and when he reads
Thy personal venture in the rebels' sight,
His wonders and his praises do contend
Which should be thine or his; silenced with that,
In viewing o'er the rest o'th' self-same day
He finds thee in the stout Norwegian ranks,
Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,
Strange images of death. As thick as hail
Came post with post, and every one did bear
Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence,
And poured them down before him.
William Shakespeare
Macbeth, 1.3.87-98
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ComWeb at Troynovant
mail & communications,
codes & ciphers, computing,
networks, robots, the Web
The History of Postcards
The Art History Archive
Postcard Pages
Postcard Traders Association
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About our overlayered structure for this Troy-town maze of cultural stratigraphy — at Troynovant an entry is a review of
book or
story, of
film or
reel or
soundie,
if largely about a particular title; a glance or counterpoint to an article or curiosity is an
illuminant; a
folly mines a vein of humor, or if more pointed a
satire; a
memoir is a firsthand reminiscence; a
postcard showcases a flat-carded Scene of Passage; a
compilation gathers quotations stoking Trains of Thought;
otherwise generally an essay.
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