It is said that during the time when Charles Dickens was serializing the novel, “The Old Curiosity Shop” in the journal, Master Humphrey’s Clock, American fans would line the docks of New York City and shout out to the crew of incoming ships from England, “Is little Nell dead?” What Dickens …

Perhaps no group of State Girl postcards found more favor among collectors over the years than did those published by Samuel Langsdorf & Company of New York. Langsdorf’s initial series of State Girls consisted of thirty flat printed divided back postcards that were designed in the United…