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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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A Postcard History Fifth Sunday
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Today is the fifth Sunday of May 2026. Postcard History is often sentimental on fifth Sundays, so today we offer three fictional tales inspired by postcards without identity. We hope you enjoy them.
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An Emotional Landscape of the
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“Rebus” may be new to some, but the rebus puzzle is older than all of us. Once used to enhance storytelling, today it renders common sayings and phrases to visual puzzles that children can solve but still stump adults.
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Oh, That’s so Madison Avenue
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No one is immune to advertising. It’s in our ears. It’s in our face. It’s everywhere. Like it or not advertising makes our purchasing decisions for us. Postcards help sell products, commodities and services. Here are a few examples.
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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.