• Bayard Veiller’s “Within the Law”

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    The 1912 play “Within the Law” – performed 541 times on Broadway – changed things: society, the justice system, and how Americans valued themselves as citizens, neighbors, and law-abiding people. Postcards prove it!

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    Bayard Veiller’s “Within the Law”

  • Tuck’s Arctic Postcards

    Tuck’s Arctic Postcards

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    Graham Paler returns to Postcard History with his take on Tuck’s Arctic postcards. He says, the Arctic has always invited the imagination to wander.

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  • They called him, “Rocky”

    They called him, “Rocky”

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    The term “outcrop” can be ambiguous, but such formations are widely recognized as massive, mostly single-rock natural structures. Every geology student studies outcrops. This is a story of an unfinished study that came to a sad end.

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  • Xavier Sager’s Leaf Portraits

    Xavier Sager’s Leaf Portraits

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    Early in his career, Xavier Sager experimented with minimal portraiture and botanical framing. His creative skill combined faces with a fruit, flower, or tree leaf. These beautiful postcards prove his genius.

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Past Article

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Before “social media” the poster and a well-informed artist had proven to be the most efficient way to communicate important information to the public. Since the Roman Forum, nothing worked better. When the Office of War Information felt that military secrets needed to be kept secret, they turn to using posters. The House of Seagram helped.

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Postcard History is a free online magazine dedicated to vintage and historic picture postcards and the many stories associated with them. We feature richly illustrated articles designed to both inform and entertain postcard collectors and history buffs. We also provide the most comprehensive listing of forthcoming shows around. And there’s a rich trove of links to institutional and personal online postcard collections. There’s also a comprehensive, verified listing of active postcard clubs in the U. S. and Canada, which we’re working on expanding worldwide.