The three Hall brothers-Rollie, Will, and Joyce-combined their savings and experience to form a partnership called the Norfolk Post Card Company. Will Hall, who located in Norfolk in 1905 as part owner and manager of a book and stationery store, provided the location for the postcard business from his store at 120 Norfolk Avenue. Rollie Hall, a traveling salesman, took on company sales as a sideline to his sales territory for an Omaha candy company. Joyce, the youngest brother, sorted cards and filled orders, leaving high school to join the postcard sales circuit. In 1910, eighteen-year-old Joyce went to Kansas City, where the enterprise evolved into greeting cards, publication of engraved cards, and manufacturing of entire lines of cards. Joined by Rollie and Will, the business organized under the name “Hall Brothers,” now Hallmark Cards, Inc.
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