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It is with deep sadness that I report the death of William Pepe, who has been a contributing writer to Barr’s Post Card News & Ephemera fo…

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I am a collector of horse postcards from Northeast Ohio, and my main collecting area is draft horses, especially if they are named and from the United States, as well as pony cards, again named and from the U.S.

Back in the early 1950s, my family and I lived on the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Although my mother was a good cook, and we ate most of our meals at home, occasionally we would patronize a local diner (Figure #1). I remember that my favorite diner dinner was Salisbury steak, mashed…

So far in the divided back postcard columns, we have traced the development of the government postal card and the privately printed postcard. We have also looked at the origination of the divided back postcard in Great Britain in 1902, and how this innovation was handled by postal authoritie…

Hello to our Barr’s Post Card News & Ephemera readers. Unfortunately, due to the continued battle against the Covid-19 virus that has swept throughout the country (and world) we will cease publishing Barr’s for an indefinite period.