Ohio - A Map of the Buckeye State

A Map of Ohio

The Buckeye State

This postcard was mailed in 2021.

 

New Hampshire - A Map Postcard

Greetings from New Hampshire, a map postcard

Australia - A Map Postcard with Animals

G'day from Australia 

This postcard was postmarked in 2026. 

 

Netherlands - Zeeland, Schouwen-Duiveland

Schouwen - Duiveland is a municipality and island in the southwestern Netherlands province of Zeeland. 

 

Caribbean - Saint Lucia

This was postmarked in 2018 from Saint Lucia. 

 

Italy - Map and Views

Italia (Italy) map and views of:

Milano, Roma, Livorno, Pisa,
Venezia, Firenze, Napoli, & Taormina

Foto: Enzo Grillo

This was postmarked in 2009.

England - Cornwall, Map (Sender Going to W. Berlin)

Cornwall
The Delectable Duchy
Cornish men claim that theirs is the first, last and best County of England.

From Padstow Point to Hartland Light
Is a water grave by day or night.

By Tre, Pol, & Pen, ye shall know Cornish men.

"Pilchards are food, money and Light, all in one night. "
(I had to look up Pilchard, it is an oily sardine.)

As I was going to St. Ives.  I met a man with Seven Wives.
Seven Wives had Seven Sacks, Seven Sacks had Seven cats, Seven Cats had Seven Kits.
Kits, Cats, Sacks, Wives, how many were going to St. Ives?

The sender writes:
I am having a fascinating trip.  If I get past the Russian guards at the E. German border - I should be in W. Berlin this PM.  If not, read about it its the Times.  See you all and tell ole Soca, I am safe.

This was postmarked from Germany in 1959. 

Grenada - Map

Grenada

The sender writes:
May 2018
We are on a cruise for our honeymoon! We had great tours here.  Our guide was Terry.  He said he is either Terr-ific, or Terr-able.  (He was ific.)

This map postcard was postmarked in 2018 from St. Georges, Grenada. 

West Virginia - Map and Greetings From

Greetings From
West Virginia

Mountain State
Capitol: Charleston
Area: 24,181 square miles
Population: 1,860,421 *
Motto: Montani Semper Libera-dendron. **
Flower: Rosebay Rhododendron
Bird: Cardinal
Tree: Sugar Maple
Animal: Black Bear
35th state admitted to the Union ***

* This was the population in the mid-1970's when this postcard was probably printed.  It has actually gone down a bit and is now 1,815,857

** Montani Semper Liberi is Latin for "Mountaineers are Always Free"

*** It was admitted on June 20, 1863.

South Carolina - Map with Views

South Carolina Fun Facts

Capital: Columbia
Area: 30,207 square miles
Statehood: May 23, 1788 (8th state admitted)
Mottos: Animis opibusque parate (Prepared in mind and resources), and Dum spiro  spero    (While I breathe, I hope)
Song: "South Carolina on My Mind"
State Bird: Carolina Wren
State Tree: Palmetto
State Flower: Yellow Jessamine

This postcard was bought in 2009.

North Carolina - Map with Flowers

North Carolina Fun Facts

State Capital: Raleigh
State Tree: Long Leaf Pine
State Flower: Dogwood
State Bird: Cardinal
Highest Point: Mount Mitchel; 6,684 feet
Largest City: Charlotte
Area: 48,843 square miles
Statehood: Nov. 21, 1789 (12th admitted)
State Motto: Esse quam videri (To be rather than to seem)
State Song: "The Old North State"

Photo by Jim Doane

This postcard was bought in 2009.

Kentucky - Map and Fun Facts

Kentucky
Fun Facts & Figures

- State Capitol if Frankfort
- admitted to the Union June 1,1792 and is considered the 15th State
- was never a territory, but was part of Virginia until statehood
-is home to Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, D.W. Griffith, Bill Monroe, Loretta Lynn, Crystal Gale, Diane Sawyer, Hunter S. Thompson and Muhammad Ali
- state flower is the Goldenrod
- geographic center is Marion County, 3 miles north west of Lebanon
- highest point is Black Mtn.; 4145 feet, 27 in.
-state song is My Old Kentucky Home by Stephen Foster
- is home to the world's most famous horse race, The Kentucky Derby, first run in 1875

The back of the postcard reads:
Hi Y'all from the population of 4,020,000!

This postcard is from 2009.

Massachusetts - Cape Cod Scenes and Map

Cape Cod
Cape Cod Bay
Nantucket Sound
Martha's Vineyard
Buzzards Bay

Cape Cod, Massachusetts

This map postcard was postmarked in 2017.

Estonia - Large Letter with a Map and Windmill

Estonia

This large letter, map postcard is from 2017. 

Spain - Camino de Santiago with Map

Camino de Santiago: (The Way of St. James, is the pilgrimage to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition has it that the remains of the apostle Saint James are buried)

Candanchu
San Juan De La Pena
Javier
Bergos
Leon
Astorga
Ponferrada
El Bierzo
Lugo
Santiano

Santiago de Compostela (a UNESCO World Heritage Site)

This postcard is from 2009. 

South America - Map

Map of South America

South American countries and their capitals cities

Argentina (Buenos Aires)
Bolivia (La Paz / Sucre)
Brazil (Brasilia)
Chile (Santiago)
Colombia (Bogota)
Ecuador (Quito)
French Guiana (Cayenne ) France
Guyana (Georgetown)
Paraguay (Asuncion)
Peru (Lima)
Suriname (Paramaribo)
Uruguay (Montevideo)
Venezuela (Caracas)

This postcard is from 2012. 

California - And Nevada, Death Valley with Map

Death Valley
National Monument
California and Nevada

Zabriskie Point in the Funeral Mountains of Death Valley National Monument provides an inspiring view of the erosion-sculptured and colorful badlands.

Ubehebe Crater is the largest of 7 volcanic craters in the northern end of Death Valley National Monument.  It is 1/3 of a mile across and 800 feet deep.

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Death Valley is a desert valley that is one of the hottest places in the world at the height of summertime along with deserts in Africa and in the Middle East.

Although it as been contested by some, Death Valley's Furnace Creek holds the record for the highest reliably recorded air temperature in the world at 134 °F (56.7 °C) on July 10, 1913.

Spain - Barcelona, La Rambla, Four Postcards

Map postcard of:

La Rambla

Barcelona, Spain

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La Rambla

Barcelona, Spain

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La Rambla

Barcelona, Spain

La Rambla

Barcelona, Spain

This unused postcard has the look of a puzzle, but it isn't one. 

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La Rambla is a street in central Barcelona, popular with both tourists and locals alike.  It is a 1.2 kilometer-long tree-lined pedestrian mall between Barri Gòtic and El Raval.

La Rambla can be crowded, especially during prime time tourist season. Most of the time, there are many more tourists than locals occupying las Ramblas -- this has changed the shopping selection, as well as the character of the street in general.  For this reason also, it has become a prime target for pick pocketing.

Ecuador - Galapagos Island Map with Animals

Galapagos Islands
Ecuador

Wolf, Marchena, Genovesa, Santiago, Bartolome, Ragida, Fernandina, Isabela, Pinzon, Baltra, Santa Fe, Sta. Maria (Floreana) and Espanola
2015

Luxembourg - Map, Bonjour

Map of Luxembourg

Bonjour de Gr. Duche
2009

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Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has a population of just over half a million people in an area of 2,586 square kilometres (998 sq mi).

The people of Luxembourg are called Luxembourgers.

Three languages are recognised as official in Luxembourg: French, German, and Luxembourgish, a Franconian language of the Moselle region that is also spoken in neighbouring parts of France and Germany. Though Luxembourgish is part of the West Central German group of High German languages, more than 5,000 words in the Luxembourgish have their origin in the French language. The first printed sentences in Luxembourgish were released by the weekly journal the 'Luxemburger Wochenblatt' in the second edition of 14 April 1821.