Postcard collector Clarissa Ferraris in her Columbia, Md., home office with some of her collection. She's been collecting postcards since she was 13 and recently helped create an online database of ...

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 ...

Long before postcards were relegated to reminders of dental checkup and oil changes, they delivered well wishes and news of safe travels. Their pictures prompted hearty laughs, showed off notable ...

Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Smell the salt air. Now...open. "This is a true picture of the ocean today," wrote S. Knipe in 1910, on the back of a postcard showing fierce waves crashing into ...

At last count, the 2024 Postcard Project received 272 mailed postcards — from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and 34 other countries. Additionally, readers sent in hundreds of vintage ...

Antique Christmas postcards are an affordable collectible favored by many collectors. The practice of collecting postcards of all types is called "deltiology," and those who collect consider the years ...

Joseph Cooper admits he has “a bad addiction” to the more picturesque history of San Antonio. That would explain the more than 10,000 vintage postcards he’s been collecting for decades. For half his ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. People can be sweet and simple creatures, and postcards are the proof. For generations, folks have sent bits of beautiful cardboard through ...