My Favorite Postcards

will smith will 2K

This is a free advertising postcard by hot stamp.

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"Will 2K" is from Will Smith's second studio album, Willennium. The single was released on September 9, 1999. 

Mae West, Hollywood 1969
Photograph by Roddy Mcdowell

This unused postcard was printed in 1980.

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Mary Jane "Mae" West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades.  The American Film Institute named her 15th among the greatest female stars of classic American cinema.

West often used a husky low voice and was one of the more controversial movie stars of her day; she encountered many problems, especially censorship. She once quipped, "I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."
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When I'm good, I'm very good, but when i'm bad, I'm better. ~Mae West

This postcard features probably the most well known quote of hers and was postmarked in 2011 from Germany.

National Portrait Gallery

Peter Capaldi
Photo by Paul Stuart, June 2014

The purchase of this postcard supports the National Portrait Gallery, London.

This postcard was postcard in 2017 from Finland.

The sender writes:

I saw the episode where Doctor Who lost his sight.  I'm not sure if I want to see the next episode!  I just LOVE Capaldi!

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Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, writer and director. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker the spin doctor in The Thick of It, for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010.

International Postcard Week
October 1-7, 2017

God Bless America

Cub Scout Pack 229
St. Martin, Mississippi
Cub master Suzanne Davenport

Our Cub Shouts would like to send a little Mississippi hospitality your way.  This was taken at our very fist Pack meeting which happened to be during IPW!

A Scout is... Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, Reverent.

This postcard was postmarked in 2017.

Just Married!

Jack Cole and Brenda Perez were married!  This postcard is from our honeymoon where we are cruising from Puerto Rico to the US Virgin Islands, St. Maarten, Martinique, Barbados, and Grenada.

With al our love,
Jack and Brenda
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cole
April 28, 2018

Thank you to Reyna for your artwork!  We love it!

This postcard was postmarked from Barbados in 2018.

At Work on the Moon

Edwin Aldrin inspects the footpad of the Lunar Module "Eagle" after it landed gently on the Moon's Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969, at 4:17 p.m EDT.  The footpad sank into the soil only about two inches.  In the weak lunar gravity, the astronauts weighed only one-sixth of their weight on Earth.

Official NASA Photograph

This vintage postcard is unused. 

Bette Davis

This reproduction postcard was bought in 2014.

Although the card doesn't say it, this is from the movie 'The Letter'.

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The Letter is a 1940 American film directed by William Wyler, and starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall and James Stephenson.

Plot:
The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing.
Bette Davis
by Oscar da Costa

This postcard is unused.

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Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas.

It's Liz Taylor.

You should really consider first class postage.

Biography Special
Elizabeth Taylor
Premieres Sunday, March 16, 8PM / 7C

A & E
Watch it on Comcast.

The is a free advertising 'Supercards', postcard.  It was printed in 2003.

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I love Liz's (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) violet colored eyes on this card. 

Astronaut Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr. demonstrates sleeping accommodations onboard space shuttle COLUMBIA during its flight which ended successfully on July 4, 1982.
NASA photo

This postcard is unused. 

Live
In Concert

The Blues Brothers

Special Guest
Jerry Garcia
July 11 - 1979
Freedom Hall
Louisville, Kentucky

This is an unused reproduction postcard that was bought in 2015.

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The Blues Brothers were founded by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live.  There first appeared on Saturday Night Live on January 17, 1976.

Woodrow Wilson's Birthplace
Staunton, Virginia
This house served as the Presbyterian Manse at the time of Wilson's birth and boyhood.  Now a national shrine and mecca for visitors from all over the world.

This postcard is unused.

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The Woodrow Wilson Birthplace is referred to as The Manse, which is the name of a Presbyterian minister's home. The Manse was constructed in 1846 by the Staunton First Presbyterian Church. It has twelve rooms with twelve fireplaces. The Wilson family moved into the house in 1855 and Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in what is now called the "birth room" on December 28, 1856. The Wilsons left The Manse in early 1858.

After the Wilsons moved out of The Manse it remained a Presybterian minister's home well into the 1920s. It was only after Woodrow Wilson's death that his widow, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, returned to Staunton with plans of creating a memorial. The house was restored to its 1850s look over the next 80 years, which included removing bathrooms, changing light fixtures, and stripping paint. Recently The Manse was restored to its original red brick, having been painted white for almost a century.

It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

Shown on the postcard is also the Woodrow Wilson presidential car, a Pierce Arrow limousine.

 Jimi Hendrix

Paul Simon
Formerly co-star of Simon and Garfunkel with top hits in mellow pop rock "Bookends", "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" and "Mrs. Robinson".  Now on his own with new album "Rimon Simon".

Colorphoto: Dennis Warren / 1978

This is postcard is unused.

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Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and actor.

Simon has earned sixteen Grammys for his solo and collaborative work, including three for Album of the Year, and a Lifetime Achievement Award.  In 2001, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2006 was selected as one of the "100 People Who Shaped the World" by Time magazine.  

London
Diana,
Princess of Wales
1961 - 1997
(1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997)

This unused, shaped postcard was bought in England in 2014.

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The Spencer Tiara has been in Diana's family for nearly a century. 

Tony Curtis

This unused reproduction postcard was printed in 2005.

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Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American film actor whose career spanned 6 decades but was mostly popular in the 50's and early 60's. He acted in more than 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. 

Ricky Nelson
May 8th, 1940 - December 31st, 1985
Born in Teaneck, New Jersey

National Postcard Week
May 7th - 13th, 2000

This unused postcard is number 7 in a limited edition of 120.  It was designed by Doris Schreib.

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Ricky Nelson (born Eric Hilliard Nelson, May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985) was an American actor, musician and singer-songwriter. He starred alongside his family in the television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952–66) as well as co-starring alongside John Wayne and Dean Martin in Howard Hawks's western feature film Rio Bravo (1959).  In 1996, he was ranked # 49 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.

Pocahontas

1607 - Jamestown Exposition  - 1907
Official Souvenir

No. 12 Pocahontas.
An idealized portrait made at the time she was in England.  Virginia cannot too much honor the memory of this lovely young woman, since to her more than once Virginia owed its existence.  And so long as history records deeds dared and hardships endured by the first settlers of Jamestown, so long will Pocahontas be remembered as the guardian angel of the colony.  Pocahontas, favorite daughter of the King, Powhatan, was born in 1587, christianized and baptized in 1612, and married in 1613.  She died in 1616, and was buried in Gravesend, England, in the chancel of St. George's Church, leaving one child, Thomas Rolfe, from whom many of the most distinguished families of Virginia have descended.  She was variously styled "the little snow feather of Powhata," the "Nonparella of Virginia," the "king's dearest daughter,", etc. etc., and bore three names, "Pocahontas" meaning bright stream between two hills "Amonate," and "Matoax," meaning "snow feather."  The last, her real name, was rarely uttered on account of the Indian superstition that knowledge of the real name gave their enemies power to cast spells upon them.

This postcard is unused.

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The Jamestown Exposition was one of the many world's fairs and expositions that were popular in the United States in the early part of the 20th century. Commemorating the 300th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, it was held from April 26 to December 1, 1907, at Sewell's Point on Hampton Roads, in Norfolk, Virginia. It celebrated the first permanent English settlement in the present United States.