Postcards can preserve ordinary moments that formal histories often overlook: a family gathered on a porch, children outside a school, workers leaving a…
The 1939 New York World’s Fair presented a radiant vision of tomorrow. Held in Flushing Meadows, Queens, the exposition introduced millions of visitors to…
Railroad postcards preserve the visual language of transportation history. A small card may show a grand terminal, a rural depot, a steam locomotive, or a…
A postcard may look like a simple paper souvenir, yet every part of it carries information. The image, border, lettering, paper stock, message area, stamp box,…
Postcards have never been made from one universal material. Their format developed alongside changes in postal regulations, printing technology, paper…
Postcards from the 1940s preserve the emotional atmosphere of a decade shaped by global conflict, military mobilization, and life on the American home front.…
Macon, Georgia, is widely known as the Cherry Blossom Capital of the World, but its postcard story began before the modern festival transformed the city’s…
The Düsseldorf School of Painting shaped nineteenth-century German art through its emphasis on disciplined drawing, carefully observed landscapes, historical…
Postcard collecting in the United States grew from a simple habit of sending greetings into a broad field of historical research. Certain postcard families…
Antique postcards offer a fascinating way to study the social landscape of Prohibition. Between 1920 and 1933, the United States officially banned the…
