It started for Peter Keyes the same way it does for many postcard collectors: with just one._ The Newbury resident, a retired high school history and economics teacher from Massachusetts, was ...

Members of the Hampton Roads Postcard Club celebrate the area’s heritage with rare collectibles. The members of the Hampton Roads Postcard Club believe that you don’t need a big frame to show someone ...

Dede Horan‘s avocation as a postcard collector started when she was about 10 years old, and heard something drop between the fireplace mantel and her bedroom wall. She reached behind the mantel and ...

Postcards are a fun way to let someone know you Wish They Were There, no matter where you are. Because of the artwork on the front, they also make great souvenirs. But did you know that old postcards ...

When Philadelphian John P. Charlton received the first copyright for a postcard in 1861–a small card mailed without an envelope that he sold to the H.L. Lipman company–he would have been surprised to ...

A snapshot in time can tell a long-forgotten story of bygone days. Old photos and postcards are an irreplaceable asset to historical societies, archivists and genealogists. For Mark Jacobson, a ...

Ken Wilson takes a startling view of the way people used postcards 100 years ago. “Postcards were the email of the day,” says Wilson, who collects historical cards. “Also the Facebook and Instagram of ...

Travelers have always aspired to proclaim: "I was here." And at the threshold of the 20th century, the hot new craze -- the postcard -- was the Instagram of its day. For the price of a penny stamp, ...

Whether it’s Melbourne, Fla., or Melbourne, Australia, city halls or concert halls, old houses, outhouses, executions, elocutions, paintings, faintings, cows looking east or cows looking west — if ...

NORMAL - Mary Lynn Edwards held the Valentine's postcard toward a light, and it took on a bright new look. Cupid, with doves on each arm, was surrounded by red and gold colors and bright flowers.