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Collectible Postcards Take You Around the World : Press Release

Collectible Postcards Take You Around the World : Press Release

| PRESS RELEASE – JULY 8, 2017 | Collectible Postcards Take You Around the World  Aboard Teddy Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet Historical Narrative Dearest Minnie, a sailor’s story  By Leslie Compton This wonderfully accurate portrayal of Teddy Roosevelt’s 43,000-mile, 14-month good will tour is seldom told in depth in history books. Extrapolated from and including over 200 actual (collectible) postcards sent home to “Dearest Minnie,” this book is an engaging narrative as seen through the eyes of an enlisted sailor aboard…

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Post Cards during the Great White Fleet

Post Cards during the Great White Fleet

My book, Dearest Minnie, began when I was ten years old though I didn’t know it at the time.  I received a large box containing three albums filled with postcards from around the world from an estate of someone I had never met.   I spent hours studying the pictures on the cards.  As an adult my fascination grew.  I took the postcards out of their disintegrating albums to discover they had been sent to my grandfather’s cousin, Minnie Camp from the USS Virginia during the…

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