TP 12/13 Postcard Swap




POSTCARD ☺♦☺♦☺♦☺♦☺♦☺ SWAP


Regardless of all the other technical possibilities -- receiving a beautiful postcard from a class of a distant country is still something very exciting and thrilling for all students!
That is why we want to offer again the possibilities of a postcard swap to all teachers and students of Todd's project worldwide this school year. If you are interested in participating with your class, please send us your complete 


POSTAL address 
until October 1st, 2012 

to the following  EMAIL-address:

schwartzilse@yahoo.de

Your information should   include: 

School Name,
Your Name, 
Class, 
Street Name, 
House Number, 
Zip Code
City, 
Country.



In early October 2012 we will publish the full list of your postal addresses on this site at your service.

If you like, please also send us photos of the postcards you received by this swap. We will be very pleased to publish them on this site  for everyone's enjoyment during the current school year. 



Have fun with this project !
( ... and a reliable postal service around the world :))











(part 1 + part 2)
Old Mill Pond School
Mr. Todd Kellaher
Grade 4D
4107 Main Street
Palmer, MA
01069
USA



(part 1 + part 2)   
Lyceum of Information Technologies
Mrs. Lyudmila Gilyova
Form 9-A 8
 Shevchenko St.
49044
Dnepropetrovsk
UKRAINE




(part 1)
 Prospect Primary School
Mrs. Jenny Rossiter
27 Gladstone Road
Prospect
South Australia  
5082
AUSTRALIA 


(part 1 + part 2)  
Kaohsiung Municipal Fo Gong Elementary School
Ms. Chih-lin Tan
No. 135 Ho-Ping Road 
Chien-Jeng District 
806  
Kaohsiung
TAIWAN




(part 1 + part 2)
 Mrs. Ilse Schwartz
Hellbrookkamp 37
D-22177 Hamburg
GERMANY




(part 1 + part 2) 
Smolenskaya School 1
Mrs. Svetlana Rovenskikh
Altai krai
Smolenskoye
 659600
RUSSIA 




(part 1 + part 2)  
Gerogery Public School
Mr. Stephen Broomfield (Principal)
Coach Rd
Gerogery (NSW)
2642
AUSTRALIA 





(part 1 + part 2)
Gustav-Dreyer-School
Mrs. Claudia Eder
Freiherr-vom-Stein-Staße 31
13467 Berlin
GERMANY




(part 1 + part 2) 
Sultanhisar"Gazi Mustafa Kemal School"
Mrs. Gülhan Kücük
Ýlködretim Okulu
09470 
Sultanhisar/Aydýn 
TURKEY





(part 1 + part 2)
Scoala Nicolae Iorga
Mrs. Cerassela Anghel
Class 5th
No. 4 Minerva Street
Ploiesti
100222
ROMANIA




Mr. Govinda Prasad Panthy
c/o Shantideep Adarsh Vidhyasadan
(SAV School)
Bageshwori-7 
Bhaktapur
(0977)
NEPAL 




(part 1 + part 2)
Kouno Azuolo mokykla
Mrs. Larisa Baroniene
Baltu pr. 123
48210 Kaunas
LITHUANIA




(part 1 + part 2)
 I.E.S. Bernaldo de Quirós
Mrs. Montse Valdés
La Villa s/n
33600 Mieres
SPAIN





(part 1 + part 2)
School Constantin Gheorghe Marinesu
Mrs. Dana Katler
Galati
str. Regiment 11 Siret
ROMANIA 





(part 1 + part 2)
Primary School of Zervohoria
Mrs. Melahrini Papardeli
Paleohora 63073 Halkidiki
GREECE





Secondary School 14
Mrs. Irina Baghirova
Grades 9-10
4th microdistrict
5008 Sumqait 
REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN





(part 1 + part 2)
Peyo Yavorov School
Mrs. Daniela Lazarova
Vladislav Varnenchik compl.
9023

Varna
BULGARIA







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Thank-you-video-clip by Lin-lin's students in Kaohsiung / Taiwan 
to Claudia's student in Berlin / Germany

Visual postcard greeting from Larisa's students 
 in Kaunas / Lithuania

Smilebox made by teacher Lin-lin from Kaohsiung / Taiwan
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The nice activities of Larisa's great 
students in Kaunas/Lithuania

 Lin-lin's Smilebox from Taiwan
  on the last calendar-day of 2012
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Todd's students from Palmer / Massachusetts / USA sent out their first postcards by snail mail, and simultaneously show you their nice town in Massachusetts / USA by this video clip.
Necessarily have a look yourself:



"Interims result" 30 January 2013

 

For the second and final part of our postcards swap 2012/2013:
In the months of February, March and April there are a lot of very different holiday-events,  celebrated by very different cultures around the  world. For example, many Muslims celebrate Nowruz (New Year) in March. Many Christians celebrate Easter in March / April, and the like.
We would be very happy if your students just would  send a very small postcard on one of those very special holidays in your country this spring to one or more postcard-swap participants on Todd's global project. Desirable is a completely regular holiday greeting card of your region with your country's typical character or local greeting slogan on it. On the back of the card your students perhaps can translate the domestic festive-greeting in English language.
We're very sure that the students (and teachers) abroad will appreciate very much a small greeting card from you/your students until the end of Todd's project in early May 2013. 


This link shows all holidays worldwide!
or you can use
this link as well

Anyway, have fun and don't forget to write
  a postcard on occasion
  




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Lin-lin / Taiwan

"... it has always been amazing what is involved to carry a postcard from A to B - sometimes around the whole globe!"



   From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Early history of postcards

Cards with messages had been sporadically created and posted by individuals since the creation of postal services. The earliest known picture postcard was a hand-painted design on card, posted in London to the writer Theodore Hock in 1840 bearing a penny black stamp. He probably created and posted the card to himself as a practical joke on the postal service, since the image is a caricature of workers in the post office.
In the United States, a picture or blank card stock that held a message and sent through the mail at letter rate first began when a card postmarked in December of 1848 contained printed advertising on it. The first commercially produced card was created in 1861 by John P. Charlton of  Philadelphia, who patented a postal card, selling the rights toHymnen Lipman , whose postcards, complete with a decorated border, were labeled "Lipman's postal card." These cards had no images.

In Britain postcards without images were issued by Post Office, and were printed with a stamp as part of the design, which was included in the price of purchase. The first known printed picture postcard, with an image on one side, was created in France in 1870 at Camp Conlie  by Léon Besnardeau (1829–1914). Conlie was a training camp for soldiers in the Franco-Prussian war . They had a lithographed design printed on them containing emblematic images of piles of armaments on either side of a scroll topped by the arms of the Duchy of Brittany and the inscription "War of 1870. Camp Conlie. Souvenir of the National Defence. Army of Brittany". While these are certainly the first known picture postcards, there was no space for stamps and no evidence that they were ever posted without envelopes.
In the following year the first known picture postcard in which the image functioned as a souvenir was sent from Vienna. The first advertising card appeared in 1872 in Great Britain and the first German card appeared in 1874. Cards showing images increased in number during the 1880s. Images of the newly built Eiffel Tower  in 1889 and 1890 gave impetus to the postcard, leading to the so-called "golden age" of the picture postcard in years following the mid-1890s.

Early US postcards

The first American postcard was developed in 1873 by the Morgan Envelope Factory of  Springfield, Massachusetts . Later in 1873, Post Master John Creswell  introduced the first pre-stamped "penny postcards". These first postcards depicted Interstate Industrial Exposition that took place in Chicago. Postcards were made because people were looking for an easier way to send quick notes. The first postcard to be printed as a souvenir  in the United States was created in 1893 to advertise the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
The Post Office was the only establishment allowed to print postcards, and it held its monopoly until May 19, 1898, when Congress passed the Private Mailing Card Act which allowed private publishers and printers to produce postcards. Initially, the United States government prohibited private companies from calling their cards "postcards", so they were known as "souvenir cards". These cards had to be labeled "Private Mailing Cards". This prohibition was rescinded on December 24, 1901, when private companies could use the word "postcard". Postcards were not allowed to have a divided back and correspondents could only write on the front of the postcard. This was known as the "undivided back" era of postcards. On March 1, 1907 the Post Office allowed private citizens to write on the address side of a postcard. It was on this date that postcards were allowed to have a "divided back".

Back of the above 1905 card. On these cards the back is divided into two sections, the left section being used for the message and the right for the address. Thus began the Golden Age of American postcards, which lasted until 1915, when World-War I blocked the import of the fine German-printed cards.

Postcards, in the form of government postal cards and privately printed souvenir cards, became very popular as a result of the Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, after postcards featuring buildings were distributed at the fair. In 1908, more than 677 million postcards were mailed. 


MID CENTURY POSTCARDS

The "linen card" era lasted from about 1931 to the early 1950s, when cards were primarily printed on papers with a textured surface similar to linen cloth. The largest printer and publisher of mid-century postcards is Curt Teich . Other publishers are Stanley Piltz , Tichnor and Western Publishing & Novelty Co.

The last and current postcard era, which began about 1939, is the "chrome" era, however these types of cards did not begin to dominate until about 1950. The images on these cards are generally based on colored photographs, and are readily identified by the glossy appearance given by the paper's coating. In 1973 the British Post Office introduced a new type of card, PHQ Cards, popular with collectors, especially when they have the appropriate stamp affixed and a First day of issue postmark obtained.

 


POSTCARDS IN BRITISH INDIA

In July 1879, the Post Office of India introduced a 1/4 anna postcard which provided postage from one place to another within British India. This was the cheapest form of post provided to the Indian people to date and proved a huge success. The establishment of a large postal system spanning India resulted in unprecedented postal access where a message on a postcard could be sent from one part of the country to another part (often to a physical address without a nearby post office) without additional postage affixed. This was followed in April 1880 by postcards meant specifically for government use and by reply post cards in 1890. The postcard facility continues to this date in independent.


British seaside postcards

In 1894, British publishers were given permission by the Royal Mail to manufacture and distribute picture postcards, which could be sent through the post. The first UK postcards were produced by printing firm Stewarts of Edinburgh and early postcards were pictures of famous landmarks, scenic views, photographs or drawings of celebrities and so on. With steam locomotives providing fast and affordable travel, the seaside  became a popular tourist destination, and generated its own souvenir-industry: the picture postcard was, and is, an essential staple of this industry.

 
In the early 1930s, cartoon-style saucy postcards became widespread, and at the peak of their popularity the sale of saucy postcards reached a massive 16 million a year. They were often bawdy in nature, making use of innuendo and double entendres and traditionally featured stereotypical characters such as vicars, large ladies and put-upon
husbands, in the same vein as the Carry On films. In the early 1950s, the newly elected Conservative government were concerned at the apparent deterioration of morals in Britain and decided on a crackdown on these postcards. The main target on their hit list was the renowned postcard artist Donald McGill. In the more liberal 1960s, the saucy postcard was revived and became to be considered, by some, as an art form. This helped its popularity and once again they became an institution. However, during the 1970s and 1980s, the quality of the artwork and humour started to deteriorate and, with changing attitudes towards the cards' content, the demise of the saucy postcard occurred.
Original postcards are now highly sought after, and rare examples can command high prices at auction. The best-known saucy seaside postcards were created by a publishing company called Bramforths, based in the town of Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, England. Despite the decline in popularity of postcards that are overtly 'saucy', postcards continue to be a significant economic and cultural aspect of British seaside tourism. Sold by newsagents and street vendors, as well as by specialist souvenir shops, modern seaside postcards often feature multiple depictions of the resort in unusually favourable weather conditions. John Hinde, the British photographer, used saturated colour and meticulously planned his photographs, which made his postcards of the later twentieth century become collected and admired as kitsch. Such cards are also respected as important documents of social history, and have been influential on the work of  Martin Parr.

Japan

In Japan, official postcards have one side dedicated exclusively to the address, and the other side for the content, though commemorative picture postcards and private picture postcards also exist. In Japan today, two particular idiosyncratic postcard customs exist: New Year's Day postcards (年賀状 nengajō) and return postcards (往復はがき ōfuku-hagaki). New Year's Day postcards serve as greeting cards, similar to Western Christmas cards, while return postcards function similarly to a self-addressed stamped envelope, allowing one to receive a reply without burdening the addressee with postage fees. Return postcards consist of a single double-size sheet, and cost double the price of a usual postcard – one addresses and writes one half as a usual postcard, writes one's own address on the return card, leaving the other side blank for the reply, then folds and sends. Return postcards are most frequently encountered by non-Japanese in the context of making reservations at certain locations that only accept reservations by return postcard, notably at Saiho-ji (moss temple). For overseas purposes, an international reply international reply coupon is used instead.
In Japan, official postcards were introduced in December 1873, shortly after stamps were introduced to Japan. Return postcards were introduced in 1885, sealed postcards in 1900, and private postcards were allowed from 1900.

 Controversy

The initial appearance of picture postcards (and the 
enthusiasm with which the new medium was embraced) raised some legal issues. Picture postcards allowed and encouraged many individuals to send images across national borders, and the legal availability of a postcard image in one country did not guarantee that the card would be considered "proper" in the destination country, or in the intermediate countries that the card would have to pass through. Some countries might refuse to handle postcards containing sexual references (in seaside postcards) or images of full or partial nudity (for instance, in images of classical statuary or paintings).

In response to this new phenomenon,the Ottoman Empire banned the sale or importation of some materials relating to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 1900. Affected postcards that were successfully sent through the OE before this date (and are postmarked accordingly) have a high rarity value and are considered valuable by collectors.




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