Postcards connected with the 1919 Chicago Race Riot offer a difficult but valuable route into American social history. They can reveal how streets, beaches,…
Depicting the 1930s Art Deco architecture on postcards required more than recording a building’s façade. Publishers and photographers translated streamlined…
The 1889 Exposition Universelle transformed Paris into a showcase of engineering, industry and national ambition. At its centre stood the newly completed…
Early aviation postcards capture the moment flight moved from spectacle to practical invention. Long before aircraft became familiar sights above Australian…
Postcards are small, inexpensive objects, yet their printing history reveals major changes in technology, commerce and popular culture. From richly coloured…
Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight from New York to Paris in May 1927 created one of the most powerful media events of the twentieth century. Newspapers, cinema…
Patriotic postcards offer a vivid way to study how countries have represented identity, loyalty and national pride. Flags, eagles, military emblems and civic…
Postcards of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo preserve a vivid record of one of America’s most ambitious world fairs. Held from May to November in…
White border postcards occupy a distinctive place in the history of printed ephemera. Produced largely from the mid-1910s through the late 1920s, they replaced…
The 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska, was one of the great visual spectacles of the American Gilded Age. Held from June…
