July 18, 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.
Past Article
September 19, 2023 3 Comments
Most collectors know when, where, and how much they paid for the first “official” postcard they collected, but sadly there has never been a place to record such data. For me it was in West Virginia, in 1983, and I paid 25 cents.