Phil Beard
Sunday, 25 January 2009

Les Baigneuses de Boulogne

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An unseasonal trip to the sea in the company of this fine group of females, enjoying the hard-won freedom to immerse themselves in seawater....
Saturday, 24 January 2009

Cigar Smoke

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Postcards depicting back-breaking manual labour were very popular. Perhaps they reminded the holiday maker of the situation from which they...
Thursday, 22 January 2009

Carlsberg

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These attractive and uncredited illustrations come from a promotional book published by the Carlsberg Brewery in the early 1950’s. The book ...
Wednesday, 21 January 2009

Helen Madeleine McKie (1889-1957)

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This group of illustrations by Helen McKie come from a promotional book entitled “Ford at War” published in 1946 to celebrate the Ford contr...
Monday, 19 January 2009

Postcard of the Day No. 24, Ostende

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Two gentlemen of leisure, unencumbered by luggage, stroll across the deck of a Dover bound ferry at Ostende. Bidding farewell to the uncivil...
Friday, 16 January 2009

Transporter Bridges Revisited

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This fabulous postcard explains the romance of this antiquated but astonishing bridge technology. This is a view of the car, or gondola, th...
Thursday, 15 January 2009

Howdy Podner!

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A raffish cowboy welcome to Sin City. An unsophisticated image with a lewd wink, an upturned thumb and a mis-shapen cigarette wedged between...
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Mostly water. Oxygen (65.0%) Carbon (18.5%) Hydrogen (9.5%) Nitrogen (3.2%) Calcium (1.5%) Phosphorus (1.0%) Potassium (0.4%) Sulphur (0.3%) Sodium (0.2% Chlorine (0.2%) Magnesium (0.1%) Iodine (0.1%) Iron (0.1%) Chromium (trace) Cobalt (trace) Copper (trace) Fluorine (trace) Manganese (trace) Molybdenum (trace) Selenium (trace) Tin (trace) Vanadium (trace) Zinc (trace)
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