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Sunday, June 9, 2013

Italian Postcard (1940)


Captions on the front read:
Top right: "So close to him all my life..."
Bottom left: "'She is my dream..."


Please leave a comment if you can translate the message on the back of this card. It will be greatly appreciated!

Soviet "1st of May" Postcard (1950's)


Saturday, June 8, 2013

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Old Japanese Postcard

Old Japanese Postcard. The caption says "Cherry Blossoms in Edogawa, Tokyo."

                                                   The back.


Monday, April 15, 2013

Old Swiss Postcard

               Old Swiss postcard, 1920's-1940's(?)

Chinese Postcard (Cultural Revolution Era)

Caption: "Learning Agricultural Production". 1960's-1970's
If you have read the book Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang, which details her life during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution of the 1960's, this image may remind you of her accounts of hard labor on farms, although the farmers in this photo are smiling for propaganda.

Back of the card:

2 Postcards From Israel

  Nethanya, Israel. 1970's

Tel Aviv, Israel. 1980