The 1920s brought an extraordinary collision of art, music and correspondence to New York's Harlem. Picture postcards, newly affordable to middle-class…
Postcards showing county courthouses and town squares preserve the civic heart of a place. A single image may record a courthouse façade, horse-drawn traffic,…
When the last Tsar abdicated in March 1917, the Russian Empire fractured into civil war. Allied leaders grew alarmed by the October Revolution, the spread of…
Comic and caricature postcards emerged alongside the golden age of postal correspondence, transforming simple correspondence cards into miniature canvases of…
Between 1900 and 1915, the Brooklyn seaside of Coney Island transformed into the most photographed entertainment district in the world. Three great parks,…
On the morning of 7 December 1941, Japanese carrier aircraft struck Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, dragging the United States into the Second World War and reshaping…
The 1939 New York World's Fair opened on April 30 and ran through October 1940, drawing more than 44 million visitors to Flushing Meadows. Touted as a glimpse…
Few collectibles capture the romance of the open road quite like postcards from the early decades of motoring. When the internal combustion engine transformed…
During the long campaign for the vote, picture postcards became one of the most widely circulated forms of political media in the English-speaking world.…
Postcards from the 1880s–1900s Native American school campaigns occupy a difficult place in the history of printed images. They can document schools, teachers,…
