ISSUE 184 - April 3, 2026 - Stamp News Online Magazine
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Who Was Charles Magnus?
by Raymond Marsh
(From Stamps Magazine, February 12, 1949, with images added)
To the American people in the period from the eighteen twenties to the eighteen eighties, life was just as intense and absorbing as it is to us today. In our day almost at the minute of occurrence, the news is spread by movies, radio, newsreels, pictorial dailies, Sunday supplements and photographs. No commercial devices of this sort assisted the spontaneous spreading of information in the earlier period.
The evolution of illustration in the United States may be . . .
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