The teddy bear emerged from a remarkable meeting of politics, popular culture and commercial design. After President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous 1902 hunting…
The 1920s rise of radio broadcasting changed how people encountered news, music and public personalities. A wireless set could bring a distant concert into the…
The Johnstown Flood of 31 May 1889 became one of the earliest disasters to receive extensive visual coverage through printed photographs, illustrated souvenirs…
Postcards showing mills, factories and industrial works offer a compact record of how communities were built, employed and connected. A single image may…
During the Great War, hundreds of thousands of African American men served in the United States military, many sent to the battlefields of France between 1917…
Long before glossy photo prints and digital greetings, sending a card meant choosing a small piece of craftsmanship. During the Edwardian era and the years…
The first decade of the twentieth century saw North America's timber frontier reach its peak. Millions of acres of old-growth pine, spruce and fir were felled…
The 1936 Berlin Summer Games rank among the most heavily documented sporting events of the interwar era, and a remarkable share of that visual record survives…
The 1920s and 1930s marked the peak of ocean liner travel, when sleek vessels carrying names like Normandie, Queen Mary, and Rex crossed the Atlantic and…
The romance of gilded proscenium arches, velvet drapery, and crowded marquées has long captivated postcard publishers across Europe and America. For collectors…
