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APRIL 2010

Hitchcock DVD

To celebrate the work of Alfred Hitchcock, who died thirty years ago this month, we are giving away a free Hitchcock DVD with every £200 (or equivalent) spent.

You'd have to be Psycho to miss it!

(Don't forget to opt in when you place your order)

Hitchcock Promotion
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Churchill
Churchill 70th Anniversary

May 10th is the 70th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister. Winston took control of the all-party government hours before the German invasion of France in 1940. To this day Churchill is revered as one of the greatest world leaders, and was voted the greatest Briton of all time in a 2002 BBC poll of over one million people.

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The Postage Stamp
170 years of the postage stamp

The humble postage stamp reaches its 170th birthday on May 1st. In 1840 the Penny Black, featuring a very young looking Queen Victoria, was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. In this gallery we look not only at the artistically verstile stamp but at the history of the postal system.

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The Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building at 80

The 80th birthday of the Chrysler Building provides us with the perfect excuse to look at some amazing pictures of the 'City that Never Sleeps'. Completed May 28 1930, this New York icon was the first building to stand taller than 1,000 feet (305m) and is still an inspirational sight to this day. Why not treat yourself to one of our many fine prints of the 'Big Apple' at www.heritage-print.com

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The Curt Teich Postcard Archives

Heritage Images is pleased to continue its partnership with the Curt Teich Postcard Archives. This truly insightful collection, artfully traces the fast changing America of the 20th century. Through lifestyle in vibrant retro colour, to poignant black and white imagery of America at war, the collection never fails to be visually compelling.

The Curt Teich Postcard Archives at the Lake County Discovery Museum is the largest public collection of postcards and related materials in North America. The core collection in the Teich Archives is the industrial archives of the Curt Teich Company of Chicago, which operated from 1898 to 1978 as the world's largest printer of view and advertising postcards. The company saved examples of every image printed, as well as the original materials for each postcard.

Specialties include historic images of 20th Century life. Vintage postcards chronicle cities and towns, travel, transportation, National Parks, social attitudes, the marketplace, family life, fashion, architecture, the changing landscape and design movements. Other topics include WWI, WWII, Route 66, African-American history, world's fairs, genre, patriotic subjects, suffragettes and literary characters.

 Curt Teich
 
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