December 6, 2025
Tag: real photo postcards
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Identifying Real Photo Postcards Using Crowdsourcing
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Crowdsourcing. Yes, I too thought of it as two words, but in 2006 Merriam-Webster defined crowdsourcing as a noun meaning the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Read about how a…
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A Social History of the Bicycle as Depicted on Real Photo Post Cards
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Which came first, the postcard or the bicycle? It does not matter for it seems like they were made for each other. Bicycles on real-photo postcards has been a popular topic for over forty years. Postcard History welcomes, Gerry Biron, a new contributor who seems to have his handlebars pointed where bicycles join postcards.
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October 18, 2022 4 Comments
Motor oil and doughnuts are not often talked about in the same paragraph, but at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago these two very dissimilar products befuddled the fair’s visitors. And from almost any place on the fairgrounds you could learn the exact temperature of the world around you.