It started for Peter Keyes the same way it does for many postcard collectors: with just one._ The Newbury resident, a retired high school history and economics teacher from Massachusetts, was ...

Joe Vella of Decatur has spent a lifetime collecting postcards and has perhaps the world’s most extensive collection. His collection of more than 52,000 postcards dwarfs the Guinness World Record ...

Unused postcards may seem like a blast from the past, but they can still send a powerful message Art postcards have a curious status. They still gather in hefty clumps at the exits of exhibitions, the ...

Our Monday Motivation series on GuinnessWorldRecords.com profiles the inspiring stories of commitment, courage and dedication behind some of our most extraordinary titles. This week we're placing the ...

The New York Academy of Medicine is bringing to light an incredible collection of over 2000 historic postcards that were collected by one man and focused on one topic: hospitals. The Robert Matz ...

When was the last time you sent or received a postcard? Long before texts, email, faxes, telexes and even the telephone, postcards were how we stayed in touch. Today postcards are mostly bought as ...

When collecting old postcards, one often wants to imagine when the scenery on the front was captured based on the postmark on the back. If the date is legible, it feels like the era has been ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Richard Marchand Historical Postcard Collection contains approximately 1,200 35mm slide reproductions of postcard images depicting early ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Historic Gardens Postcard Collection includes over 500 postcards of historic views of various public gardens, parks, monuments, and buildings ...

Installation view of “Postcards of the Wiener Werkstatte” (All photos by the author for Hyperallergic) What significance does a single image have in visual culture? The postcard, that old redoubt of ...

"The Classic Irish Postcard Collection" is a newly released book that gives a beautifully illustrated insight into Ireland's past. Written and published by County Cork author Tom Cronin, this ...