GRANDE HOTEL DAS TERMAS, Luso (Mealhada), Coimbra, Portugal. Postcard (1957)

GRANDE HOTEL DAS TERMAS
Luso

Advertising postcard sent to Barcelona, Spain, on 26.06.1957.

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PORT AUTHORITY BUS TERMINAL. New York City, USA. Postcard sent to Terrassa (Catalunya, Spain) in May 1957

PORT AUTHORITY BUS TERMINAL
8th Avenue and 41st Street
New York City

Postcard published by Art Colortone, Chicago,
sent from New York to Terrassa on 02.05.1957.

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MUSEI E GALLERIE PONTIFICIE. BIBLIOTECA APOSTOLICA VATICANA. Vatican City (1957)

MUSEI E GALLERIE PONTIFICIE
BIBLIOTECA APOSTOLICA VATICANA

Admission ticket [14.06.1957].
Lire 300

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INTERFLUG. Aircraft "Antonov An-24". Stamp issued by German Democratic Republic post in 1969

INTERFLUG (DDR / German Democratic Republic)
Aircraft Antonov An-24
Stamp issued by German Democratic Republic post in 1969.

The Antonov An-24 (Антонов Ан-24) is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport/passenger aircraft designed in 1957 in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau and manufactured by Kyiv, Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude Aviation Factories from 1959 to 1979. First flight: 29 October 1959.

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M/S "BATORY", Poland. Stamp issued as a souvenir sheet by the Polish Post in 2023

M/S BATORY
Stamp issued as a souvenir sheet by the Polish Post on 17.07.2023.

M/S Batory was built in 1934–1935 at the Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico in Monfalcone, Italy, under an arrangement where part of the commission was paid in shipments of coal from Poland, and she was launched on 3 July 1935. She was a Polish ocean liner which was the flagship of Gdynia-America Line, named after Stefan Batory, the sixteenth-century King of Poland. She began regular service in May 1936 on the Gdynia — New York run, and by 1939 had carried over 3,000 passengers. Mobilized at the outbreak of World War II, she served as a troop ship and a hospital ship by the Allied Navy for the rest of the war. In 1940 she, along with Chrobry, transported allied troops during the Norwegian campaign. She was also one of the last ships to leave St Jean de Luz during the final evacuation of Polish troops from France. She was also used for secretly shipping many valuable Polish treasures to Canada for safekeeping. On 5 August 1940 she left Liverpool with convoy WS 2 (Winston's Specials) evacuating 477 children to Sydney, Australia, under the Children's Overseas Reception Board until the war was over. She sailed via Cape Town, India, Singapore to where she had carried 300 troops and Sydney. She was involved in the allied invasion of Oran, Algeria in 1942 (Operation Torch). That same year she took troops to India and later took part in the Allied invasion of Sicily and southern France (Operation Dragoon), where she was the flagship of General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Commander-in-Chief of the French Army. Returned to post-war Poland in 1946, she resumed civilian service after a refit, and after she was withdrawn from the North Atlantic route, refurbished at Hebburn for service in the tropics, and sailed in August 1951 from Gdynia and Southampton to Bombay and Karachi, via Gibraltar, Malta, Aden, and Suez. In 1957, she returned to the North Atlantic run. She continued in service until 1969, when she was decommissioned and became a floating hotel in Gdynia. However, after about a year, she was sold back to Polish Ocean Lines, and from there she was sold for scrap to Hong Kong. She left Gdynia on 31 March 1971 and arrived to the scrapyard on 26 May. The ship had been scrapped completely by 1972. 

Thanks to Daniel.

VALENCIA, Spain. Tramways in Porta de Serrans. Postcard (1930s)

VALENCIA
Tramways in Porta de Serrans.

Postcard published by JDP, Valencia (1930s).

On 23 June 1876, Valencia's first tram, powered by horses, linked the city with its Grau port. The construction work on the first tram infrastructure in Valencia was carried out between 1887 and 1888. The first line that was put into service, on 21 November  1891, connected the Empalme station in Burjassot with Bétera, with a length of 14.7 km. On 7 July1892, the second line was inaugurated, between the current Pont de Fusta and Grau stations, with a length of 5.8 km. The tram network was successively expanded. In 1917, the Compagnie Générale des Tramways de Valence (Spain) Société Lyonnaise, known as La Lionesa, and the Sociedad Valenciana de Tranvías, which had been established on 16 January 1885, merged and the Compañía de Tranvías y Ferrocarriles de Valencia (CTFV) was born. The rise of Valencian trams occurred in the 1940s and 1950s and their decline began in 1957 as a consequence of the great flood that affected the city, and from then on the progressive disappearance of the tram as a means of urban transport began. In 1986 FGV (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana) began to operate the city's new trams.

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MONTSERRAT, Catalunya, Spain. Arrival of the rack railway

MONTSERRAT
Arrival of the rack railway.

Old photo.
Collection of Joan Bta. Perich i Adrià.

The Montserrat Rack Railway (Cremallera de Montserrat) is a mountain railway line that runs from the Monistrol de Montserrat station to the Montserrat monastery, at the top of the mountain, with an intermediate station at Monistrol Vila. The line is 5 km (3.1 mi) long and has a track width of 1,000 mm. It was inaugurated in 1892, closed on 12 May 1957 and reopened on 6 June 2003.

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M/N "MONTSERRAT". Compañía Trasatlántica Española. Advertising postcard

M/N MONTSERRAT
Compañía Trasatlántica Española

Advertising postcard.

The Montserrat was built in Baltimore (USA) in 1945, as a cargo ship, for the United States Navy, and left the shipyard under the name Wooster Victory. Between 1948 and 1949 she was used to bring hundreds of Jewish refugees in China during WWII to the new state of Israel. In 1950 she was bought by the Sitmar Line and converted into a cargo and passenger ship with the name Castel Verde, and in 1957 she became property of the Compañía Trasatlántica Española, with the name Montserrat. The ship had capacity for 825 passengers, and served the line between Spain and Central America. She had several breakdowns, the most important being in August 1970, when she was making the trip from Venezuela to Tenerife, with 600 passengers, and broke down in the middle of the Atlantic. She had a temporary repair done in Curaçao, and then she continued doing the line. In February 1973 she completed her last voyage, disembarking 46 passengers from England in Vigo. Afterwards, she was taken to Castellón, where she was scrapped.

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TRANS EUROP EXPRESS (VT 11.5). Germany, 1957. Postage stamp (2006)

TRANS EUROP EXPRESS (VT 11.5)

Postage stamp issued by the Deutsche Post en 2006.

The Trans Europ Express, or Trans-Europe Express (TEE), was an international first-class railway service in western and central Europe that was founded in 1957 and ceased in 1995. At the height of its operations, in 1974, the TEE network comprised 45 trains, connecting 130 different cities, from Spain in the west to Austria in the east, and from Denmark to Southern Italy.

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HOTEL GELLÉRT. Budapest, Hungary. Postcard (1963)

HOTEL GELLÉRT
Budapest

Postcard published by Képzőművészeti Alap Kiadóvállalata, Budapest, I.-117 (1963).
Photo: M. T. I. Sziklai.

The Hotel Gellért is an Art Nouveau hotel on the right bank of Danube in Budapest. The 176-room hotel was designed by Hungarian architects Ármin Hegedűs, Artúr Sebestyén and Izidor Sterk. Construction started in 1912, but due to World War I, and it did not open until September 1918. The hotel was severely damaged in World War II. Restoration began in 1957, and work was completed in 1962. Itl was again renovated in 1973. Danubius Hotels assumed management of the hotel in 1981. After the company was privatized in 1992, it purchased the hotel outright in June 1996 and it became the Danubius Hotel Gellért. The hotel closed for renovations on 1st December 2021 and ceased to be operated by Danubius Hotels at that point.

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BARCELONA. Bus Chausson, line B: Atarazanas - Bonanova (1957)

BARCELONA
Bus Chausson, line B (Atarazanas - Bonanova).

Postcard published by Eurofer - Amics del Ferrocarril, Barcelona, Nº 4050.
Photo taken by Pere Farré i Puig at the junction of Carrer Mandri and Passeig
de la Bonanova, on 5 December 1957. 

The Société des usines Chausson was a French manufacturing company, headquartered in Asnières-sur-Seine (Paris region) founded in 1907 and active until the year 2000. It was a major builder of public transport vehicles. The first Chausson buses that circulated in Barcelona were imported in 1954. The vehicle in the image belongs to the 300 series, incorporated into Barcelona public transport in November 1957, and was withdrawn in 1978.

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Ferry "TRILLIUM", Ontario, Canada. Postage stamp (2023)

Ferry TRILLIUM
Toronto, Ontario

Stamp issued by Canadian post on 12.07.2023.

Trillium is a side wheeler ferry operated by the City of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation. The ship was built in 1910 by Polson Iron Works and initially operated by the Toronto Ferry Company. She was launched on June 18, 1910, and entered service on July 1, 1910. Trillium was retired in 1957 and sold to the Toronto Works Department, which intended to use it to carry sewage sludge from the new Humber Sewage Treatment Plant. It was left to sink in a lagoon in the Toronto Islands, along with her sister vessel Bluebell. In the sixties, there was renewed interest in the Trillium. First, in 1964, it was proposed to display the Trillium along with other historic boats at the Toronto Maritime Museum but the proposal failed. In 1965, it was then proposed to return the boat to service. Metro Toronto approved her restoration in 1973. The ship returned to Toronto Harbour in November 1975. She was returned to service on July 1, 1976. In 2017, Trillium was refurbished.

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GASTHAUS ZUR "EHRLEN", Ibach, Schwyz, Switzerland (1957)

GASTHAUS ZUR "EHRLEN"
Jos. Mettler-Reichlin
Ibach (Schwyz)

Invoice
28.08.1957
38,00 CHF

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DIREZIONE GENERALE DELLE ANTICHITA' E BELLE ARTI, Italy

DIREZIONE GENERALE DELLE ANTICHITA' E BELLE ARTI
[GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF ANTIQUES AND FINE ARTS]

Ticket Series E, Nº 702927.
17.08.1957
Lire 150

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TERME DI CARACALLA, Roma. Teatro dell'Opera - Stagione Estiva 1957

TERME DI CARACALLA
Teatro dell'Opera - Stagione Estiva 1957

Ticket 18.08.1957.

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HOTELL LAPONIA, Arvidsjaur (Sverige / Sweden)

HOTELL LAPONIA - ANNO 1957
Storgatan 45
933 33 Arvidsjaur (Sverige / Sweden)
www.hotell-laponia.se

Publicitary brichure.
Folleto publicitario.
Fullet publicitari.
Brochure publicitaire.
Opuscolo pubblicitario.

(2011)

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MUSEO STORICO P.C., Roma (Italia)

MUSEO STORICO P.C., Viale Europa, 00144 Roma EUR (Italia). Cartolina pubblicitaria.
[Il museo delle poste e telecomunicazioni italiano è gestito da Poste italiane e dal Ministero delle Poste e Telegrafi. Le stanze del museo occupano una superficie complessiva di 4000 m² nelle quali vengono raccolti oggetti, cimeli, francobolli che riguardano la storia della posta italiana che spazia dal telegrafo al computer passando per la radio e la televisione. Il primo abbozzo di questo museo è del 1878. In quest'anno Ernesto D'Amico fa creare presso l'ufficio dei Telegrafi a Firenze una raccolta di materiali telegrafici provenienti dai dagli antichi stati italiani prima dell'Unità d'Italia e non più utilizzati dall'unificazione italiana stessa. Successivamente, nel 1890, Pietro Lacava, volle un museo della posta da unire a quello telegrafico di Firenze, così fece organizzare e catalogare tutti quei cimeli che testimoniassero l'evoluzione delle comunicazioni nel corso della storia. Nel 1897, Emilio Sineo, continuò l'operato di Lacava, incrementando le acquisizioni nonché le donazioni di privati arrivando ad un rilevante patrimonio museale. Nel 1907 il materiale museale fu trasferito a Roma. Nel 1939 fu trovata una sede in un ufficio postale nel quartiere Prati. Tuttavia, solo dopo il termine della secoda guerra mondiale il museo venne aperto, questo il 21 giugno 1957. Nel 1977, il museo fu trasferito nella sede attuale ed inaugurato solamente nel 1982.]

HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF POST & TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Viale Europa, 00144 Rome EUR (Italy). Publicitary postcard.

MUSEO HISTÓRICO DEL CORREO Y LAS TELECOMUNICACIONES, Viale Europa, 00144 Roma EUR (Italia). Tarjeta postal publicitaria.

MUSEU HISTÒRIC DEL CORREU I LES TELECOMUNICACIONS, Viale Europa, 00144 Roma EUR (Itàlia). Targeta postal publicitària.

MUSÉE HISTORIQUE DES POSTES ET TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Viale Europa, 00144 Rome EUR (Italie). Carte postale publicitaire.

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FLUGHAFEN DRESDEN (Deutschland). 70 Jahre

FLUGHAFEN DRESDEN (Deutschland). 70 Jahre. Postkarte von Foto-Fkug, KS 301. [2005]

DRESDEN (Germany). 70 anniversary of Airport. Postcard by Foto-Fkug, KS 301. [2005]
[The airport was opened to commercial traffic on 11 July 1935. Though planned as a commercial airport, its importance to the military increased dramatically during the following years in the Third Reich. During World War II it was exclusively used for military purposes. An airlift between the airport and Breslau was established to support german troops during the Siege of Breslau in spring of 1945. Attempts to destroy buildings and equipment before the Allied troops could occupy Dresden failed due to the resistance of civil airport employees. During the following years, the airport was used as an education centre for the Soviet army. It was reopened for commercial traffic on 16 June 1957. In 1959 international air traffic resumed, primarily to countries of the Eastern Bloc. Between 1955 and 1961, the East German government decided to develop its own aviation industry centred on Dresden. Although this development ultimately failed, it increased the importance of Klotzsche Airport considerably, and has shaped the design and atmosphere of the airport right up until today. After German reunification, the airport was expanded and flights to western European capitals were added. Traffic increased sevenfold during the first half of the 1990s and a second terminal was opened in 1995. In 2001 the current terminal was added. This was rebuilt from a hangar formerly used as an assembly hall by the aircraft industry. (Source: Wikipedia.)]

DRESDE (Alemania). 70º aniversario del aeropuerto. Tarjeta postal de Foto-Fkug, KS 301. [2005]

DRESDEN (Alemanya). 70è aniversari de l'aeroport. Targeta postal de Foto-Fkug, KS 301. [2005]

DRESDE (Allemagne). 70ème anniversaire de l'aéroport. Carte postale de Foto-Fkug, KS 301. [2005]

DRESDA (Germania). 70º anniversario dell'aeroporto. Cartolina di Foto-Fkug, KS 301. [2005]

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CUNARD LINE. S.S. "Franconia" at Bermuda in the late 1960's

CUNARD LINE. S.S. "Franconia" at Bermuda in the late 1960's. Postcard by C.T. Publishing, No. 010, 1993 (from the Collection of Richard I. Weiss).
[This ship, named initially "Ivernia", was built in 1954 by John Brown & Co, Clydebank. She was the second four ships primarily intended for the Canadian service, and their dimensions were determined by the St Lawrence Seaway. During the summer they would sail to Quebec and Montreal, and in the winter (when the St Lawrence Seaway is iced over) to Halifax and New York. Construction of Ivernia started in 1954, and she commenced her maiden voyage from Greenock to Quebec and Montreal on 1st July 1955. She carried 110 first class passengers and 833 tourist class. Her decor was contemporary for the time, and most unlike the traditional interiors of earlier Cunarders. From April 1957, "Ivernia" sailed from Southampton to Montreal, rather than from Liverpool. The late 1950s were boom years for Cunard, and "Ivernia" was initially very successful on her designed routes. However, air was becoming increasingly the dominant mode of trans-Atlantic travel, and Cunard announced a significant financial loss in June 1962. It was announced that "Saxonia" and "Ivernia" would be rebuilt at John Browns to make them more suitable for cruising. "Ivernia" had completed 109 round voyages across the Atlantic when she was sent back to her builders in October 1962, reappearing as the "Franconia" in Cunard's cruising green livery. The interiors had been refitted, and a new lido had been built on the aft decks, replacing the aft cargo hatches. Passenger capacity had been reduced to 119 first and 728 tourist class, and air conditioning had been installed throughout. Despite the cruising modifications, "Franconia" re-entered service on the North Atlantic run in July 1963. She ran successfully through the summer and switched to her planned cruising itinerary from New York in the winter, returning to the trans-Atlantic routes in April 1964. In 1970, Cunard took a 50% interest in Overseas National Airways, which had two cruise ships on order to operate on fly-cruises, forming the company Cunard-ONA. Shortly after this, ONA were forced to withdraw from the arrangement, leaving Cunard to continue alone. "Franconia" left on her last Bermuda cruise on 2nd October 1971, remained at Southampton for seven months, when they were moved to the River Fal, where they joined the Southern Cross which had been withdrawn shortly after them. At one point is was hoped to sell them to Ted Arison for his fledgling Carnival Cruises, but agreement could not be reached. "Franconia" eventually began new careers under the Soviet Unions's hammer and sickle as "Fedor Shalyapin", and received very little interior changes before beginning a varied career as Soviet cruise ship, travelling all over the world. Following the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1989, became owned by the Ukraine, although nominally belonging to Maltese holding companies. Their condition deteriorated over the next few years and they were both laid up in the Black Sea in 1995.]

CUNARD LINE. El S.S. "Franconia" en Bermuda a finales de la década de 1960. Tarjeta postal de C.T. Publishing, Nº 010, 1993 (de la colección de Richard I. Weiss).

CUNARD LINE. L'S.S. "Franconia" a Bermuda al final de la dècada de 1960. Targeta postal de C.T. Publishing, Nº 010, 1993 (de la col·lecció de Richard I. Weiss).

CUNARD LINE. Le S.S. "Franconia" à Bermuda vers la fin des années 1960. Carte postale de C.T. Publishing, Nº 010, 1993 (de la collection de Richard I. Weiss).

CUNARD LINE. Il S.S. "Franconia" a Bermuda alla fine degli anni 1960. Cartolina di C.T. Publishing, Nº 010, 1993 (della collezione di Richard I. Weiss).

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MICHIGAN - OHIO TRANSPORTATION CO. S.S. "Aquarama" (1960)

MICHIGAN - OHIO TRANSPORTATION CO. S.S. "Aquarama" leaving Cleveland, Ohio, about 1960. From the Collection of Richard I. Weiss, 1996. Postcard by C.T. Publishing, Birmingham, Mich., No. 080.
[Originally named the "Marine Star", the "Aquarama" was built in 1945 in Chester, Pennsylvania as a United States Maritime Commission. Designed as a transoceanic troop carrier, the ship made one trip across the Atlantic before combat ceased. The ship remained unused for a few years until it was bought in 1952 by the Sand Products Company of Detroit. After being purchased the ship was towed to Muskegon, Michigan where it was converted into a commercial cruise ship. The Aquarama began operation in 1956 by touring various Great Lakes ports. In 1957 the Michigan-Ohio Navigation Company, began service from Detroit to Cleveland carrying automobiles and passengers. In 1987 it was sold to the North Shore Farming Company. The Aquarama was briefly docked at Sarnia, then Windsor before returning to its original name of Marine Star and moving under tow to Buffalo. On August 3, 1995 the Marine Star berthed at the Cargill Pool Elevator where it stayed until it was towed overseas to Aliaga, Turkey for scrap September 2007.]

MICHIGAN - OHIO TRANSPORTATION CO. (EUA). S.S. "Aquarama" [1945-2007] zarpando de Cleveland, Ohio, hacia 1960. Foto de la colección de Richard I. Weiss. Tarjeta postal de C.T. Publishing, Birmingham, Mich., No. 080.

MICHIGAN - OHIO TRANSPORTATION CO. (EUA). S.S. "Aquarama" [1945-2007] sarpant de Cleveland, Ohio, cap al 1960. Foto de la col·lecció de Richard I. Weiss. Targeta postal de C.T. Publishing, Birmingham, Mich., No. 080.

MICHIGAN - OHIO TRANSPORTATION CO. (EUA). S.S. "Aquarama" [1945-2007] quittant Cleveland, Ohio, vers 1960. Photo de la collection de Richard I. Weiss. Carte postale de C.T. Publishing, Birmingham, Mich., No. 080.

MICHIGAN - OHIO TRANSPORTATION CO. (EUA). S.S. "Aquarama" [1945-2007] in partenza da Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1960. Foto della collezione di Richard I. Weiss. Cartolina di C.T. Publishing, Birmingham, Mich., No. 080.

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