Maryland - Baltimore Court House

Baltimore. Court House
1906

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Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr, Courthouse

In 1894, 79 local and national architectural firms responded to a design competition under the Tarsney Act for the new courthouse. Of the entries, a Greek Revival–styled courthouse proposed by the Baltimore firm of Wyatt and Nolting was chosen. The cornerstone for the Baltimore Courthouse was laid in 1896 and the building was dedicated at a public ceremony on January 8, 1900.

The courthouse occupies a full city block. Eight Ionic columns, each weighing 35 tons and measuring 31 feet in height, support the base of the roof facing Calvert Street. These columns are seven feet taller than those surrounding the United States Capitol.

Illinois - Alton, Flood of 1943

20. Ties Rowboat to Park Meter, May, 1943

Photo by Alton Evening Telegraph
Grogan Photo of Danville, Illinois

unused

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This is from the flood of 1943 with over million acres underwater and approximately 80,000 reported homeless.

Alton is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about 15 miles (24 km) north of St. Louis, Missouri. The population was 27,865 at the 2010 census.  It is famous for being the hometown of Robert Wadlow (the tallest man in the world at a height of 8 foot 11.1 inches (2.72 m)).

Virginia - Arlington, Pentagon, Five-Sided Giant

Pentagon
Arlington, Virginia

The five-sided giant, nerve center of the Defense Department is the largest office building in the world.  This  simple, functional design eliminates considerable walking from office to office.
2011

Ohio - Cleveland Brown's Stadium

Cleveland Brown's Stadium
The Browns have played on the same site on the shores of Lake Erie since their inception in 1946.  From 1946 - 1995, their home was Cleveland Municipal Stadium.  In 1999 the Cleveland Brown's Stadium, a modern glass and concrete structure replaced old Municipal Stadium on the same 31 - acre site.

National Postcard Week
May 1 - 7, 2011

unused
limited edition 1 of 75

Germany - WWII 1938 Hitler Germany Map of the Sudetenland

Wir Danken Unserm Fuhrer
(We thank our leader)

The pre-paid stamp on the back reads: Deutsches Reich, 4 December 1938

unused propaganda postcard for Hitler's Germany

below is a view of the back of the postcard

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I read on the internet that Konrad Henlein is next to Hitler and this is for the German Anschluss and annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938.

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The Sudetenland is the German name to refer to those northern, southwest, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited mostly by German speakers, specifically the border districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Silesia located within Czechoslovakia.

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Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein (6 May 1898 – 10 May 1945) was a leading Sudeten German politician in Czechoslovakia. Upon the German occupation he joined the Nazi Party and was appointed Reichsstatthalter (Imperial Lieutenant or Imperial Governor) of the Sudetenland in 1939.

Germany - WWII 1938 Hitler Germany Map

13 - Marz 1938 (March 13, 1938)

Ein Vok Ein Reich (A Nation an Empire)

Ein Fuhrer (A Leader)

unused propaganda postcard for Hitler's Germany 

below is a view of the back of the postcard 

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On 13th March 1938, Hitler announced the Annexation of Austria into the German Reich.

Virginia - Abingdon, Barter Theatre

Barter Theatre
Abingdon, Virginia

The famous Barter Theatre was the brainchild of Robert Porterfield.  Started during the Great Depression, the first patrons were admitted in exchange for food.  Many of our present-day great actors got their start here.

Photo by R.A. Young
2013

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Barter Theatre, located in Abingdon, Virginia, opened on June 10, 1933. It is one of the longest-running professional theatres in the nation. In 1933, when the country was in the middle of the Great Depression, most patrons were not able to pay the full ticket price. Robert Porterfield, founder of the theatre, offered admission by letting the local people pay with food goods, hence the name "Barter". The original ticket price for a play was 40 cents, or the equivalent in goods.

Many well-known stars of stage, screen and television have performed early in their careers at Barter, including Gregory Peck, Ernest Borgnine, Patricia Neal, Ned Beatty, Hume Cronyn, Gary Collins, Frances Fisher, Kevin Spacey, Larry Linville, John Glover, Jim Varney, and Wayne Knight.

United Arab Emirates - Dubai, Burj Khalifa Building

Dubai - New Year Celebration at Burj Khalifa
2013

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Burj Khalifa known as Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest man-made structure in the world, at 829.8 m (2,722 ft).

Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010.

In March 2009, Mohamed Ali Alabbar, chairman of the project's developer, estimated the total cost for the project to be about US$1.5 billion.

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To wash the 24,348 windows, totaling 120,000 m2 (1,290,000 sq ft) of glass, a horizontal track has been installed on the exterior of Burj Khalifa at levels 40, 73, and 109. Each track holds a 1,500 kg (3,300 lb) bucket machine which moves horizontally and then vertically using heavy cables. Above level 109, up to tier 27 traditional cradles from davits are used. The top of the spire, however, is reserved for specialist window cleaners, who brave the heights and high winds dangling by ropes to clean and inspect the top of the pinnacle. Under normal conditions, when all building maintenance units will be operational, it will take 36 workers three to four months to clean the entire exterior façade.

Unmanned machines will clean the top 27 additional tiers and the glass spire. The cleaning system was developed in Melbourne, Australia at a cost of $8 million.

Turks and Caicos Islands - Another Day, Another Sunset

Turks & Caicos Islands
Another day, another sunset!

As the day wears on, the vivid colours of the sea gradually fade and make way for the sunsets to put on their own magical display of colour.
2011

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The Turks and Caicos Islands are named after the Turk's-cap cactus (Melocactus communis), and the Lucayan term caya hico, meaning string of islands.

South Africa - Durban, Ricksha on Esplanade, Real Photo Postcard

Ricksha on Esplanade
Durban

unused real photo postcard
K Ltd is in the stamp box, so this is from 1918 to 1936

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Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. It is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa and Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism because of the city's warm subtropical climate and extensive beaches. The municipality, which includes neighbouring towns, has a population of almost 3.5 million.

New Jersey - Lucy the Elephant

Lucy the Elephant
"Lucy" is a National Historic Landmark.  She was built in 1881 by James Lafferty.  Lucy stands six stories tall and weights 90 tons.  Lucy was used as a function building.  Now visitors can tour inside for a small fee.
2013

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Lucy the Elephant is a six-story elephant-shaped example of novelty architecture, constructed of wood and tin sheeting in 1881 by James V. Lafferty in Atlantic County, New Jersey in an effort to sell real estate and attract tourism.

Today, Lucy is a tourist attraction. Guided tours take visitors into the building through the spiral staircase in the left rear leg up into the interior, then up again into the howdah to see views of Margate, the Atlantic City skyline, and the Atlantic Ocean.

New Jersey - Fire and Ice Festival

Fire and Ice Festival
New Jersey

The annual Fire and Ice Festival is a one day event that takes place in Mt. Holly, NJ in January.  The fire comes in from the various chili recipes enjoyed while taking in the ice sculptures.
2013

(I believe these are ice sculptures made for the people who sponsor the event)

Morocco - Tangier, Rue des Siaghins

Tanger (Maroc) - Rue des Siaghins
(Tangier (Morocco) - Siaghins Street - now called Rue as-Siaghin)
1939

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Tangier has been reputed as a safe house for international spying activities. Its position during the Cold War and other spying periods of the 19th and 20th centuries is legendary.

Tangier in the movies:

Inception featuring Leonardo DiCaprio – 2010: The city was used to film the scenes set in Mombasa, Kenya

The Living Daylights – a James Bond movie where he hunts Brad Whitaker down at his Tangier headquarters

From Russia with Love – the fictional character in "James Bond", Red Grant was recruited by "SPECTRE" in Tangier in 1962, whilst on the run from the law

Man from Tangier (a.k.a. Thunder Over Tangier) – 1957

My Favorite Spy - A Bob Hope and Hedy Lamarr spy comedy set mainly in Tangier. - 1951

Tangiers, 1908 was one of the unaired Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episodes
Flight to Tangier (Charles Marquis Warren) – 1953

The Bourne Ultimatum, an espionage movie featuring Matt Damon – Jason Bourne tracks a man through the city who has information on his (Bourne's) past. – 2007

Massachusettes - Oak Bluffs Gingerbread House

Gingerbread House

One of the Quaint Gingerbread Houses in the Camp Meeting Grounds at Oak Bluffs.

Photo by G. Frederick Stork in 1986

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Oak Bluffs is a town located on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States. It is one of the island's principal points of arrival for summer tourists, and is noted for its "gingerbread cottages" and other well-preserved late-nineteenth-century buildings.

Mali - Dogon People Dancing

Mali
En pays Dogon, les danses elles-memes ont garde leurs caracteres parfaitement originaux.
(In Dogon country dances themselves have retained their original character perfectly.)
1983

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The Dogon are an ethnic group living in the central plateau region of the country of Mali, in the West of the Continent of Africa.  They are best known for their religious traditions, their mask dances, wooden sculpture and their architecture. The past century has seen significant changes in the social organization, material culture and beliefs of the Dogon, partly because Dogon country is one of Mali's major tourist attractions.

Kenya - Jambo, Maasi People

Jambo - (slang for hello in Swahili)
Kenya
Maasai

The pastoral Massai numbering 250,000 share the Maa language form which their name derives, occupying the Narok and Kajiado districts of Kenya.  To the warriors the fashion of long hair is a sign of beauty instead of the women, beauty consists in having a shaved head polished brightly with fat with numerable beads that are part of the necklaces that decorate their body, neck, head, ears, wrists, arms, fingers, knees and ankles.

Photo: Eric Harris
1993

Indonesia - Makassar, Native House and Boats

Native House
Makassar

unused, 1936 - It has a divided back and lines for the address, however the only writing is a name in small letter printed at the center bottom:  gevaert

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Makassar (sometimes spelled Macassar, Mangkasara) is the provincial capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the largest city on Sulawesi Island.

Indonesia - Makassar, Native Fishing Boats

Native Fishing Boat
Vischerf Pauw (maybe the name of the photographer??)
Makassar

unused, 1936 - It has a divided back and lines for the address, however the only writing is a name in small letter printed at the center bottom:  gevaert

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Makassar (sometimes spelled Macassar, Mangkasara) is the provincial capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the largest city on Sulawesi Island.

Indonesia - Bali Rice Terraces

Stunningly beautiful rice terraces, well-watered volcanic slopes
Bali
2011

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Bali's volcanic nature has helped to make the soil very fertile for growing crops.  Also the tall mountain ranges provide lots of rain to help support the agriculture. South of Bali's mountains is a broad, steadily descending area where most of their rice is grown.

Guyana - Map

Map of Guyana
2012

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Guyana, along with Suriname, French Guiana, Falkland Islands, and Brazil is one of the five non-Hispanic nations in South America.

English is the official language and is used for education, government, media, and services. The vast majority of the population speak Creole, an English-based creole with African and East Indian influence, as their native tongue. In addition, Cariban languages (Akawaio, Wai-Wai, and Macushi) are spoken by a small minority, while Indic languages are retained for cultural and religious reasons. Spanish and Portuguese are widely used as second languages.

France - Air Mail Stamps Featuring the Eiffel Tower

Correspondance aerienne - (Air Mail)

This is a postcard that looks like an envelope with air mail stamps featuring the Eiffel Tower.
2013

Florida - Naples, Fifth Avenue South

Fifth Avenue South
Naples, Florida

Photograph by Gail Burd
2013

New Mexico - Exaggeration Postcard from Hatch

How we do things at Hatch, New Mexico

Exaggeration postcard with tomatoes larger that the wheelbarrow
1914

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Hatch is a village in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,648 at the 2010 census.

Ohio - Exaggeration Postcard from Lynchburg

How we do things at Lynchburg, Ohio
You are mine at last

fishing exaggeration postcard
1919

Djibouti - Le Passage Cloute (Crosswalk) Man with Sheep

Republique de Djibouti
Le passage cloute (crosswalk)
I think the date written on it is 1983.

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Djibouti is a multi-ethnic nation, with a population of over 790,000 people. The Somali and Afar make up the two largest ethnic groups. Both speak Afro-Asiatic languages, which serve as recognized national languages. Arabic and French constitute the country's two official languages.

California - Disneyland, Aerial View with Earforce One, Mickey Air Balloon

Disneyland Park
California

Earforce One (Hot Air Balloon in the Shape of Mickey Mouse's head)
Riding high above Disneyland California provides  a panoramic view of all the FUN you will find.

The Walt Disney Company

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Earforce One was made in 1986

some stats:
100 feet high
Ears = 35 feet in diameter
Nose = 33 feet long
Head = 168.3 feet around
Weighs 330 pounds uninflated and without basket
Manufactured by Cameron Balloons, Ltd., Bristol, England

Cyprus - Map fo the Best Island

The best island
Cyprus
2013

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Cyprus has two official languages, Greek and Turkish. Armenian and Cypriot Maronite Arabic are recognized as minority languages. Although without official status, Russian is widely spoken among the country's minorities, residents and citizens of post-Soviet countries, as well as Pontic Greeks. It is used and spoken by approximately 100,000 people. In addition to these languages, 76% of the population of Cyprus speak English, 12% speak French, and 5% speak German.

The everyday spoken language of Greek Cypriots is Cypriot Greek and that of Turkish Cypriots is Cypriot Turkish. These both differ from their respective standard register quite significantly.

Florida - Kennedy Space Center: Space Shuttle Atlantis Lifts Off

Kennedy Space Center
Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off.
Photo courtesy of NASA
bought in 2012

New York - Tribute in Light, Remembering the World Trade Center

The Statue of Liberty stands proud against New York's skyline with the blue beams of the Tribute in Light remembering the former World Trade Center

photo: 2007  Mark Wayne

New York - Statue of Libery, Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor

Statue of Liberty, New York

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.  Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.  I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

Emma Lazarus
1883

postcard is from 2011

Kansas - Wichita Postcard Club, 150 Years

Wichita Postcard Club
Kansas 150 Years, 1861 - 2011
Artwork by Rick Geary

National Postcard Week
May 1 - 7, 2011

England - Houses of Parliament at Sunset

 Houses of Parliament
2011

Switzerland - St. Gallen Church

St. Gallen (Shown is the Abbey of Saint Gall)
Barock-Kathedrale (Baroque Cathedral)
erbaut 1755-1767, Innenrenovation 1962-1967
(Built in 1755-1767, 1962-1967 interior renovation)
2013

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The Abbey of Saint Gall (German: Fürstabtei St. Gallen) is a Roman Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in present-day Switzerland.

Around 613 an Irish monk named Gallus established a hermitage on the site that would become the Abbey. He lived there until his death in 646.

Following Gallus' death, Charles Martel appointed Othmar as custodian of St Gall's relics. During the reign of Pepin the Short, in the 8th century, Othmar founded the Carolingian style Abbey of St. Gall, where arts, letters and sciences flourished. Several different dates are given for the foundation of the Abbey, including 719, 720, 747 and the middle of the 8th century. Under Abbot Waldo of Reichenau (740–814) copying of manuscripts was undertaken and a famous library was gathered.

 The library at the Abbey is one of the richest medieval libraries in the world. Since 1983 it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
(see a postcard of the library below the stamps...)

Switzerland - St. Gallen Church Library

St. Gallen SC
Stiftsbibliothek

foto: R Gerth
2013

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The Abbey Library of Saint Gall was founded by Saint Othmar, the founder of the Abbey of St. Gall.
The library collection is the oldest in Switzerland, and is one of earliest and most important monastic libraries in the world. It holds 2,100 manuscripts dating back to the 8th through the 15th centuries and 1,650 incunabula (printed before 1500). The library holds almost 160,000 volumes.

The library books are available for public use, but the books printed before 1900 must be read in the Reading Room.

In 1983 the library together with the Abbey of St. Gall were made an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Sri Lanka - Animals from Yala National Park

Island of Sri Lanka
Photograph by Juergen Schreiber

Yala National Park
(featuring an elephant, peacock, deer, jaguar and falcon / eagle)
2013

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Yala National Park is the most visited and second largest national park in Sri Lanka. It covers 979 square kilometres (378 sq mi).

The park consists of five 'blocks', two of which are now open to the public, and also adjoining parks. The blocks have individual names such as, Ruhuna National Park (block 1) and Kumana National Park or 'Yala East' for the adjoining area.

Yala was designated as a wildlife sanctuary in 1900 and is best known for its variety of wild animals. It is also important for the conservation of Sri Lankan Elephants and aquatic birds.

New York - President McKinley at the Temple of Music in Buffalo

Temple of Music, Buffalo, N.Y. Where Pres. McKinley was Shot
David Ellis, Publisher, Buffalo, N.Y. Printed in Germany

unused postcard featuring a picture of Mr. and Mrs. William McKinley and a metal buffalo

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The Temple of Music was a concert hall and auditorium built for the Pan-American Exposition which was held in Buffalo, New York, in 1901. U.S. President William McKinley was assassinated inside the building on September 6, 1901. The structure, like most of the other buildings at the exposition, was demolished when the fair ended.

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William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination in 1901, six months into his second term. Though his administration was cut short with his assassination, his presidency marked the beginning of a period of dominance by the Republican Party that lasted for more than a third of a century.

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Ida was born in Canton, Ohio, the elder daughter of James Saxton, prominent Canton banker, and Katherine DeWalt. Her grandfather, John Saxton, in 1815 founded The Repository, the city's first and now its only newspaper. A graduate of Brook Hall Seminary, a finishing school in Media, Pennsylvania, Ida was refined, charming, and strikingly attractive when she met William "Bill" McKinley at a picnic in 1867. They did not begin courting until after she returned from a Grand Tour of Europe in 1869. While single, she worked for a time as a cashier in her father's bank, a position then usually reserved for men.

Stuart Florida's 75th Anniversary Commemorative Postcards 1914 - 1989

A celebration in front of Stuart's first bank which opened its doors August 29, 1912.  Photograph is from a cracked glass negative.

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A Seminole Indian woman with two pigs on a leash walking by the railroad tracks in front of George W. Parks, General Merchandise Store.  Photo taken in 1905.  

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An early view of Stuart looking south from the F.E.C. passenger depot, showing the Kitchen building which housed the Stuart Department Store and the Peacock Arcade which burned in January 1959.

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The Feroe Building built in 1914 and the F.E.C. passenger depot, c. 1918

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All these commemorative postcards are from:

Stuart Florida's 75th Anniversary 1914 - 1989

Photograph courtesy of Stuart Heritage Stuart Mainstreet.

George W. Parks Store (now the Stuart Heritage Museum) in Stuart, Florida

Stuart Florida's 75th

Anniversary Commemorative Postcard

1914 - 1989

General merchandise store built in 1900 by George Parks, Sr. 

This Stuart landmark which is today's Stuart Feed Store was purchased by the City of Stuart in 1987.  (update, as of now, it is the Stuart Heritage Museum)

Photograph courtesy of Stuart Heritage 

Stuart Mainstreet.

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"Stuart Feed Store"

Watercolor by

Clara Belle (Stuart) Hellenburg

At the time this was drawn, it must have still been used as a store and a museum, now it is only the museum.

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Stuart Heritage Museum
Stuart, Florida
2013

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The Stuart Heritage Museum at 161 Southwest Flagler Avenue in Stuart, Florida, is a local history museum located in an historic 2-story frame building built in 1901 by George W. Parks. Parks used the first floor of the building for his Geo. W. Parks Grocery and General Merchandise Store and second floor for his home. In 1913, the building became the Stuart Mercantile Company and in the 1960s after a series of uses, it became the Stuart Feed Store. In 1989, the Stuart Feed Store was listed in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture. As of now, it is no longer used as a store, it is only the Museum.

The museum houses over 10,000 artifacts from the 1880s to the 1950s.

England - Salvation Army Brass Band

I think the drum reads: The Salvation Army Corp No 1357 ?
printed in England

This is a real photo postcard that was never mailed but has writing on the back:

Dear Albert
Have sent you this P.C. we thought you might like to see our Bandsmen in their uniform

with love from ...

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Salvation Army brass bands are in the British tradition and limited to cornets, flugelhorns, tenor horns (known as alto horns in U.S.A), baritones, trombones, euphoniums, tubas (known as basses in brass bands), and percussion; but not trumpets or French horns, since they are orchestral and concert band instruments.

With the exception of the bass trombone and percussion, all parts are transposing and written in the treble clef, which means that for every instrument, from the big basses right up to the soprano cornet, the fingering for the written notes is similar. This system, which is unique to UK-style brass bands, ensures most parts can be covered when there is less than a full complement of players

Burkina Faso - Market Scene (Haute Volta)

Republique De (Republic of) Haute Volta
Ouagadougou (Now the Capital City of Burkina Faso)
Scene de marche (Market Scene)

postmarked in 1981 with a Haute-Volta stamp

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Ouagadougou was the site of Ouagadougou grand market, one of the largest markets in West Africa, which burned in 2003 and remains closed.

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Republic of Haute Volta is now the country of Burkina Faso...

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa around 274,200 square kilometres (105,900 sq mi) in size.
Formerly called the Republic of Upper Volta, the country was renamed "Burkina Faso" on 4 August 1984 by then-President Thomas Sankara, using a word from each of the country's two major native languages, Mòoré and Dioula. Figuratively, "Burkina", from Mòoré, may be translated as "men of integrity", while "Faso" means "fatherland" in Dioula. "Burkino Faso" is thus meant to be understood as "Land of upright people" or "Land of honest people".

Belarus - Zaslawye in 18th Century, Watercolour

Zaslawye in 18th century. Watercolour by V. Stashchanyuk
From the stock of Reservation Museum of culture and history "Zaslawye"
2013

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Zaslawye is a historic town in Minsk Province of Belarus.

World Map With People for International Postcard Week

International Postcard Week
October 6-12, 2013

Art by Rick Geary

the back reads:
Hello and Thank you for celebrating the first ever International Postcard Week!

My name is Brenda Perez and I have collected postcards for many years.  You can see some of my postcards on my blog... http://www.9teen87sPostcards.blogspot.com

For more information or to sign up for next year's International Postcard Week, please visit:
http://www.InternationalPostcardWeek.com

limited edition # ___of 250