In late March 1913, Dayton, Ohio, became the centre of one of the most extensively photographed urban disasters in American history. Relentless rain swelled…
The midways of the 1890s World's Fairs introduced visitors to a new visual language of entertainment, commerce and global spectacle. Long before online…
Radio transformed the 1920s from an age of newspapers and cinema into one of shared sound. For the first time, families could gather around a wireless set and…
Before colour photography became affordable, postcard publishers found ingenious ways to make a flat paper image appear to change. A seaside view could glow…
The 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition transformed Seattle into a stage for western expansion, international trade and Pacific ambition. Held on the grounds…
Between the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917 and the consolidation of Bolshevik power after the Civil War, American publishers turned distant upheaval into…
Antique postcards showing zoos preserve far more than animal portraits. They record public attitudes towards wildlife, the design of early zoological parks,…
Postcards showing Shriner parades and conventions preserve a vivid record of American fraternal life during the early twentieth century. Their scenes are full…
Postcards are often treated as small souvenirs, yet their influence reached far beyond holiday albums. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,…
Postcards from the 1914–1918 trench war occupy a special place in military history and ephemera collecting. They were inexpensive, portable and quick to send,…
