Seymour Brandwein

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Seymour Brandwein was apparently a Maryland economist who traveled around the country in the '50s and '60's and sent postcards with state maps home to his son, Billy. This card is from Indiana.

Feb. 26, 1959

Hi–

I’m speaking at Notre Dame tomorrow here in South Bend. They have snow along the streets here which fell back in mid-January, so much that it still hasn’t melted! By the way I saw the Cuban bearded revolutionaries who are on a good-will tour to N.Y. and Washington, at National Airport,

Daddy

I buy these postcards at a Brooklyn flea market.

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On front of card: "Restoration of Armored Dinosaur, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution."

March 10, 1959

Hi Mommy:

We saw a big, big elephant here this morning. Daddy also took me to see birds and animals after he opened his locked car.

Billy

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"Greetings from Missouri."

August 9, 1962

Bill

This card is being mailed from a town which has my name–Seymour. If we’re lucky, the postmark will show it clearly. It is being mailed for me by the head of a school in a town near it. He is at the economic workshop I’m attending.

Dad


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