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POSTCARDS ( & Luxembourg )

Did you ever try to imagine your ancestors "surroundings" ? - Here you will find LINKS to old postcards to have a look at.

When did postcards start ?

My postcard collection (coming soon)               WALDHOF / Falkenstein                             Schloss / Burg Falkenstein

The letters, diary, postcards and pictures of a World War I soldier                                                                                                                   - Paul B Hendrickson
      
Walking to Luxembourg 
     December 7, 1918 to December 20, 1918 

excerpt:
(6) Dec 12 Thur 6th day of hike - left at 10 am. behind 2nd Bn. went out of Audun Letisch and Lorraine into Esch in Luxemburg. a city of 200-000, fine place. most & largest industral plants I've seen in Europe. People clean & prosperus looking. very sociable to us. we played thru city. Business seems to be going 1st rate. We then passed thru Modercence, Ehlange, Reckange, and at 3:30 - raining all the time, pulled in Dippach. Billeted in school house with a clean floor & stove going. good to the band. 18 K today - 127 total. feet awfully sore - heel caused me much pain.


     

Eduard Pesé's collection is also interesting for "old views" from Luxembourg Country                           ...a little collection of 'old' picture postcards (LINK on the Home site = 'Ansischtskarten' )

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Die Postkarte - eine österreichische Erfindung

1869 hatte der Klagenfurter Professor der Nationalökonomie Dr. Emanuel Herrmann einen folgenreichen Einfall, indem er eine völlig neue Sendungsart vorschlug: Einfache "Postkarten", nicht größer als ein Briefkuvert, die "offen durch die Post versendet werden dürfen". Die Idee fand großen Zuspruch und am 1.10.1869 wurden die ersten weißen Karten im Format 16 x 8,6 cm mit aufgedruckter gelber 2-Kreuzer-Marke und der Bezeichnung "Correspondenz-Karte" von der Post aufgelegt. Mit durchschlagendem Erfolg: Schon im ersten Monat verkauften sich 1,4 Mio. Stück! Dem österreichischen Beispiel folgten bald die meisten europäischen Länder und die USA. 1885 erhielten Privatpersonen die Erlaubnis, solche Karten zu erzeugen. Damit war der weltweite Siegeszug der Ansichtskarte nicht mehr aufzuhalten.

Quelle: http://www.post.at/content/unternehmen/geschichte/unternehmen_geschichte.html
http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.p/p690184.htm

  • Welcome to Jim and Betty Gill's family history homepage   [BOLD = FM]

    World War I
    Betty's father, Paul B Hendrickson, was a veteran of World War I. When he passed away, we found neatly packed away in the family home 125 letters he wrote home to his mother and to the neighbor girl who after the war became his wife. We also found a diary kept during the year he was in France and almost 300 postcards which were sent home either individually or in envelopes. In addition, we have letters sent to him, negatives and prints taken at Camp Parker in Quincy, Ill., and at Camp Logan in Houston, Texas, and maps he drew of both camps. We are slowly adding this legacy to our web page.

    The letters, diary, postcards and pictures of a World War I soldier 
  •                == >  http://www.jimgill.net/gill/wwipages/index.html


Chapter 14      Walking to Luxembourg      December 7, 1918 to December 20, 1918    


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