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This post card stuck out to me because the handwriting is so pretty and I imagine the writer, Mary, took her time writing it. If you look closely, you can kind of see pencil lines that were drawn, likely to help keep the words from slanting. Despite the lovely handwriting, the content of the card
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Asylums and the history of mental illness has fascinated me for as long as I can remember. Both of my parents worked at the state hospital in North Dakota until we moved to Alaska in 2001. I got my bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2017 and have been working in the field since; including an
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Simply put, St Mary Magdalene church in Taunton has been around for quite some time and a lot of work has been done on it to keep it as authentic as possible while making it accessible to the public and tourists. It was completed in 1508 in Early Tudor Perpendicular Gothic style. Fun fact: Gothic
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I was sorting my postcards to find ones that I hadn’t transcribed this and this one emerged from the pile. I had a hard time transcribing some of this one but I really wanted to post it because it was sent 70 years ago today. What are the odds?! This is what I was able
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This postcard was a little fun for me because I have spent the last 24 years living in Alaska and in the last 24 years, I have never been to Juneau. Definitely on my bucket list! Mendenhall Glacier was originally known as “the Glacier Behind the Town” or “the Glacier Behind the Little Lake before
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The front of the postcard (above) and the picture below are both from the Painted Desert in Arizona. I would love to put that and the Petrified Forest National Park on my travel bucket list, but I’m afraid I would melt in the heat. It is incredibly beautiful, though. The card itself talks about the
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8/4/1948 Hi honey, We are now in St. Ignace, came over on this ferry. 80 cars on it. Very windy. On our way to Saint Ignace Marie. Hope all is well with you. Love, mom and dad. I was able to find a census report for 1930, 1940, that mention JoAnne, but when we get
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This is one of the older postcards I’ve received having been sent in 1983. Hello, We’re having a nice, nice, nice trip. We’re here for a while then we will move on. Hope all is well with you both. Our best, Gladys and Don When looking up the recipients of the postcard, I came across
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Interesting Record These letters have been edited to make the handwriting easier to read. It was done in pencil so parts of it are quite faded. It is in surprisingly good condition to have been written in 1903. I have transcribed it and fixed some of the spelling and grammatical errors. The letter reads: Sep
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