Rarities Room

Redcar Revisited

On any given day, a postcard can emerge from the collection that takes you back…

by Anne L'Ecuyer July 15, 2026

Who do you tell when disaster strikes? Despite their cheery reputation, postcards delivered the bad…

by Anne L'Ecuyer June 24, 2026

Remember that you will die, but your vacation photos live on.

by Anne L'Ecuyer June 17, 2026June 17, 2026

Imagine all the reasons a man might vanish. Illness, catastrophe, bad deeds. Did our man…

by Anne L'Ecuyer June 1, 2026June 3, 2026

In 1943, director Emilio Fernández was filming a scene much like this one on the…

by Anne L'Ecuyer May 27, 2026

I’m a fan of research that never reveals its source or finds the answer. There…

by Anne L'Ecuyer May 22, 2026

The story of a mail-carrying ship named after a queen who never arrived.

by Anne L'Ecuyer April 29, 2026

Three cards were slipped into a box of laundry powder in 1882. Someone kept them.…

by Anne L'Ecuyer April 15, 2026

A Hoenisch Portrait of composer Edvard Grieg at Troldhaugen, July 25, 1907. Six weeks after…

by Anne L'Ecuyer April 8, 2026

British WWI Hospital Ward RPPCs, a rare paired set, circa 1915–1918

by Anne L'Ecuyer March 25, 2026

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