“Celebrating,” a postcard by Esther Hunt, 1903
Archive for the ‘Postal History’ Category
Incense, 1903
Posted in Art, Incense, Postal History on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Neysa McMein, 1925
Posted in Art, Love, Mail, Postal History on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone Loves the Mail
Posted in Art, Mail, Postal History on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Art by F. Earl Christy (1883-1961) for the cover of The Ladies’ Home Journal, February 1914. Christy’s work glorified young women, especially the society college girl, always beautiful and beautifully dressed.
Alaskan Mail Carrier
Posted in Art, Mail, Postal History on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Because I love the post office and N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), I am naturally a fool for “Alaskan Mail Carrier,” an illustration in which a postman has fought for his life (and the mail) with a pack of wolves on a frozen lake. The image was said to be based on an actual event, but Wyeth [...]
Fog
Posted in Mail, Postal History on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Fog — just one trip into its soup could turn even the most cavalier aviator into a true believer of flying’s high commandment, namely: Thou Shalt Not Fly Where One Canst Not See, as yon mountain, tree, or church steeple shall rise up through the shroud and smite down thy flying machine.”
– From Mavericks of [...]
Sadness Occasioned by an Empty Mailbox
Posted in Art, Literature, Mail, Postal History on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cover from a 1951 paperback edition of the 1936 Gale Wilhelm novel No Letters for the Dead. The artist’s name is fuzzy, but the first name appears to be Ray or Roy. Cover thanks to Brian Philippi.
The Post
Posted in Literature, Mail, Postal History on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The post for which she was waiting (strolling up Dods Hill while the random church bells swung a hymn tune above her head, the clock striking four straight through the circling notes; the grass purpling under a storm-cloud; and the two dozen houses of the village cowering, infinitely humble, in company under a leaf of [...]
The Hazards of Mailing
Posted in Literature, Mail, Postal History on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The rashest drivers in the world are, certainly, the drivers of post-office vans. Swinging down Lamb’s Conduit Street, the scarlet van rounded the corner by the pillar box in such a way as to graze the kerb and make the little girl who was standing on tiptoe to post a letter look up, half frightened, [...]
Silver Arrow
Posted in Art, Literature, Mail, Postal History, Travel on December 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A poster by Adolphe Mouron Cassandre (1901-1968) for Aéropostale (1918-1932) a French airline which carried mail, passengers, French culture and influence to Spain, Africa and South America. Among its daring pilots was writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry who described his experiences in Vol de Nuit, translated into English as Night Flight.
On Letters and the Mail
Posted in Literature, Mail, Postal History on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“A Letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.” — Emily Dickinson in a letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1869
“Destroy these letters!” — Warren G. Harding to one of his lovers, Carrie Phillips, who received more than 250 of his mash notes between 1909 and 1920
“It’s long [...]
