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Here are a number of references which can be used to research old antique postcards and to date vintage postcards. Many postcard history and postcard artists links are included. Also see the Canadiana and Northern Ontario Postcard Photographers pages for additional postcard references. The story of Antoine’s Moose-Yard provides additional background information on Northern Ontario life as it was more than 100 years ago.
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- Notable Archives and Postcard Collections:
- Alaska’s Digital Archives
- Australia Postcards and Picture Galleries, an interesting selection of vintage and contemporary Australian postcards
- Boston Public Library Postcard Collection
- The Carl Link Postcard Collection, 1904-1960, with an emphasis on c. 1920s postcards. See also the larger Dickinson Research Center collection, which is part of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
- Curt Teich Postcard Archives - The world’s largest public postcard collection (over 365,000 postcards cataloged), and one of the largest collections of roadside America postcards, including Route 66 and the Lincoln Highway
- Digital Past, searchable database of Illinois postcards and ephemera
- Early Postcards of India and Ceylon, 1900-1920
- Florida Postcard Collection, The - Miami area views highlighted in a presentation from the Special Collections Division of the University of Miami Libraries
- Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, nearly 1,000 vintage postcards
- “Greetings from the Country”: The University of Washington Libraries Postcard collection, emphasizing the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia and Alaska
- Hilda’s Cuban Postcard Museum
- Historic Opera Postcards
- Historical Postcards of Singapore - People, Places and Buildings
- Horse Racing Postcard Museum
- Japan:
- Art of the Japanese Postcard: The Lauder Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Hans Gruen Collection, The
- Old Tokyo - Vintage Images from Japan
- Lighthouse Postcards - Searchable database at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
- Maude Fealy Postcard Gallery
- Moody Medical Library, containing over 5,200 postcards which document changing styles in hospital architecture from the turn of the century to the present. Part of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
- National Postal Museum: America’s History in the Mail
- Old Istanbul Postcards
- Old Postcards from Brazil
- Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920: Over 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies and over 300 color photolithograph prints in this Library of Congress collection. Search by keywords or subject
- Postcards about Photography
- Postcards from the Road, a roadside Americana collection
- Postcards of British India
- Postcards of Palestine
- Postcards of the Mexican Revolution, including information on Guerra Photography
- Postcards of the University of Michigan, including a history of the picture postcard and the postcard collecting craze
- Postcard Views of Tornadoes, 1907-1930
- Propaganda Postcards of the Great War
- Russia:
- Early St. Petersburg, Russia in Postcards
- Images of St. Petersburg, Russia:
- - 1900-1917
- - 1918-1941
- Russian Postcards of the 1920s-1930s
- Strobridge Calendar Cards at the University of Cincinnati
- Tacky Postcard Archive, The: Preserving the bad taste of our era for future generations
- Ukrania:
- Ukraine Postcards - Stunning advertising, comic, folk art, holiday, propaganda and women’s history examples
- Old Postcards from the Ukraine
- Ukranian Postcards, historical perspective
- Zwerdling Nursing Archives: Postcards of Nursing
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