• Are You Ready for Some Football?Part V

    Are You Ready for Some Football?
    Part V

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    Postcards have added a better understanding of college football history with this series of articles. This Part V contribution highlights colleges from the American mid-west.

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  • Looking Back on a Working Holiday

    Looking Back on a Working Holiday

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    There is an emotional connection between music and postcards. Music, once heard is seldom forgotten, it is the same with postcards. Once seen, a postcard is long remembered. The marriage of the two makes magic.

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  • Take Me Out to the Old Ballgame

    Take Me Out to the Old Ballgame

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    Baseball is still America’s Pastime. It is played in thirty cities across North America. Almost every day during the season an umpire is yelling “Play Ball.”

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Past Article

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For the first time in history a fictional character in a dime novel introduces the world to an historical event unequalled in history and one that can never be repeated. And, an anonymous contributor emailed us a postcard with a three-word message – “Check this out!”

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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.