Hello All, My Great Uncle Thomas Powell COOPER was born 1904 in AL. He joined the Merchant Marines at an early age. He was one of a few survivors of the torpedoing of the SS CHATHAM. He almost froze to death in 20 minutes and took over a year to heal. Due to that experience, he designed life boat improvements and inventing some other things. He travelled everywhere and always sent post cards to his sisters (my grandma & great aunt). They had pretty stamps that I admired as a child. One is a card of Jack Dempsey and he mentions the new car speed record being set in 1965 by Jim Clark (170+ mph). Only a few cards survived as listed below. If you want to take a look, go here: http://www.donnacuzze.com/genealogy/coopCards.html To read about Uncle Powell go here: http://www.donnacuzze.com/genealogy/coopPwel.html POSTCARD PHOTO DATE MAILED POSTAGE Aruba, Palm Beach 1957 Aruba Nederlandse Antillen 15c SS Argentina/Brazil 1958 NY NY US 5c AirMail Buenos Aires 1958 Argentina? Argentina 2 Peso EstebanEcheverra Cuba San Juan Hill Monument 1958 Cuba Cuba 8c Aero, Cuba Correos 1c Florida, Ave of Pines 1956 Tampa, FL US 6c AirMail Haiti Casino 1956 Cristobal Canal Zone Canal Zone 6c AirMail Hawaii, Lihue 1955 Long Is City NY US 6c AirMail Hula Dancers 1955 Long Is NY US 6c AirMail Jack Dempsey 1964 Long Is City NY US 5c US Worlds Fair + US 1c Jackson Fleet St./St.Paul's 1957 London SWI Britain 8.d (Queen?) Malta Kingsway 1951 Staten Is NY US 6c AirMail New Santa Rosa/Santa Paula 1964 __Glen NY US 4c Lincoln SS Nieuw Amsterdam 1958 SouthHampton Britain 8.d (Queen?) SS New United States 1955 NY NY US 6c AirMail SS Constitution 1956 Gibralter (2) 3.d Gilbralter Utah Capitol 1956 ElMonte CA US 2c Jefferson LET ME KNOW IF ANYONE IS RELATED. THANKS, DONNA CUZZE dcuzze@earthlink.net