Postcards are small, inexpensive-looking objects that can preserve a surprisingly rich record of financial history. Images connected with the Wall Street Crash…
In February 1913, New York’s 69th Regiment Armory became the setting for an exhibition that unsettled American ideas about painting and sculpture. The…
Covered bridges are compact records of American landscape, engineering and community life. A single postcard may show a timber truss over a winter creek, an…
During the Second World War, postcards travelled along supply lines, crossed oceans in mail sacks, and arrived in kitchens and trenches with images designed to…
When Charles Lindbergh lifted off from Roosevelt Field on 20 May 1927, the young mail pilot could not have known he would become the most photographed aviator…
A black sky rolling toward homesteads, a sod farmhouse half-buried in dust, a tractor stranded in a field of nothing — these are the images that define the…
The lobby is a stage. From the moment the bellhop set down your portmanteau, the camera began capturing gilt lettering and marble floors. Postcard publishers…
The first decade of the twentieth century marked a turning point for ordinary correspondence. Until 1907, most postcards circulating through the United States…
Between 1920 and 1933, the United States tried to outlaw the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. The Eighteenth Amendment and Volstead Act created a…
When the RMS Titanic slipped beneath the freezing waters of the North Atlantic in April 1912, news of the tragedy travelled with extraordinary speed. By the…
