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PostSecret is an ongoing community mail art project, created by Frank Warren in 2004, in which people mail their secrets anonymously on a homemade postcard. Selected secrets are then posted on the PostSecret website, or used for PostSecret's books or museum exhibits.
In 2016, it was announced that the archives would be transferred to the Newberry Library. [4] Altogether, the Newberry Library received approximately 2.5 million total items including nearly 500,000 postcard images. On April 3, 2017, the Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection was opened to researchers. [5]
Tichnor and Curt Teich were rivals; in at least one case Curt Teich managers wanted to copy a view from a Tichnor postcard. [3] The Tichnor Bros. archives, a valuable source for American architectural and cultural history, are held at Boston Public Library, which has also posted thousands of free-use images online at their Digital Commonwealth ...
Some are quite rare, but many are extremely common; this was the era of the postcard craze, and almost every antique shop in the U.S. will have some postcards with green 1¢ or red 2¢ stamps from this series. In 1910 the Post Office began phasing out the double-lined watermark, replacing it by the same U S P S logo in smaller single-line letters.
In 2005, Jackson’s International auctioned this unused postcard (circa 1898) advertising Waverley Bicycles. Featuring artwork by Dutch designer Alphonse Mucha, the small card sold for $12,650 ...
Postcard depicting Dalhousie Street, Amherstburg, Ontario, c. 1920, from the Alvin D. McCurdy fonds held at the Archives of Ontario. After the war, the production of postcards continued, albeit in different styles than before. Demand for postcards decreased, especially as telephone usage grew. [1]
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"Greetings from Chicago, Illinois" large-letter postcard produced by Curt Teich The history of postcards is part of the cultural history of the United States. Especially after 1900, "the postcard was wildly successful both as correspondence and collectible" and thus postcards are valuable sources for cultural historians as both a form of epistolary literature and for the bank of cultural ...