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April 26, 2021

Tag: real photo postcards

A Social History of the Bicycle as Depicted on Real Photo Post Cards

Gerry Biron April 26, 2021

Gerry Biron

A Social History of the Bicycle

as Depicted on Real Photo Postcards

In 1839, the first practical photographic process was invented by Louis-Jacque-Mande Daguerre, a French artist and photographer. Some believed he had unleashed a nefarious invention on the world that raised questions about the morality of a

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Identifying Real Photo Postcards Using Crowdsourcing

Bridget Whittle September 12, 2019

Bridget Whittle

Identifying Real Photo Postcards

Using Crowdsourcing

Train wreck near Rivers, Manitoba, 1921

In 2008, McMaster University’s Archives and Research Collections received 4,021 postcards from a private collector. The cards were scanned in anticipation of an online exhibit, but funding failed to materialize and the scans languished on a

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