Thus, like the miller, bold and free, let us rejoice and sing; The days of youth are made for glee, and time is on the wing ;  The ...

Electric trams had been around for about five years when Dr. Bine sent this card to his sister Marie. Decades later, I would board a streetc...

Martha sent this card to her grandmother in May of 1909 from Davenport, New York. At that time her grandmother would have been 73 years old....

Today we have another card from René Bine, sent to his sister Marie and parents back in San Francisco in November 1904. I have posted a num...

René Bine is 22 as he writes his accounts of medical school in Vienna in 1904. He's full of observations on professors and fellow studen...

René Bine is studying medicine, but he's also interested in music and art so Vienna is a great place for him to be. His first-hand accou...

The young René Bine of San Francisco appears to have been very enthusiastic and dedicated to his study of medicine in Vienna in 1905, but n...

It's 1904 and our studious friend, René Bine , is enjoying the experience of studying medicine abroad. I have postcards from 1904, 1905,...

This is a continuation of the message from card #109 on Friday's post.  Dr. René Bine wrote messages that continued mid-sentence from o...

There is so much to say about Dr. René Bine that I hardly know where to start. Someone should make a movie about him. I only learned of him ...

It turns out that books were used with some frequency as a marketing tool on trade cards in the 1880s to promote all things unrelated, inclu...

I was going to post something celebrating this blog's 100,000th visitor yesterday, but I'm a little under the weather and just didn&...