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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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- Postcard History:
- A Brief History of Large Letter Postcards
- Curteich Printing Process, The
- Disneyana:
- Disneyland postcard serial numbers
- Disneyland Postcards, a history
- Visit to Yesterland, A - The Discontinued Disneyland
- Walt Disney World: A History in Postcards
- Early AIDS Awareness postcards, an unusual postcard topic from Great Britain
- Early Maximum Cards of Mexico: Stamps Copied from Real Photo Postcards, with information on photographers Rodolfo Mantel and Mauricio Yañez as well as the Exclusivos Julio company, from author Susan Toomey Frost
- Exaggeration and Novelty Fruit Postcards
- Family in a Shoebox, a charming story illustrating how family history and genealogy can be traced through old postcards
- Glossary of Postcard Terms
- Grading Postcards, Postcard Preservation & Postcard Terminology
- Greetings from the Smithsonian: A Postcard History of the Smithsonian Institution
- Historic Postcards of Women
- History of Phonocards (Phonograph Record Postcards) - E.P.I., Louis Boduin, Marxen-Singola, Musika, Raphael Tuck, Weco and Zonophon, researched by Birgit-Lotz-Verlag
- History of Postcards from an American perspective
- A History of Theatre Postcards
- Hold to Light Postcards:
- Description of Hold to Light Postcards
- Hold to Light Postcards
- Hold-to-Light Opera Postcards
- Important Events in Postcard History
- Japan’s Postcard History
- Mainzer Dressed Cats Postcards
- Maximum Cards and Maximaphily
- Maximum Cards in Medicine
- Origins of the Official Post Card
- Penny Postcards by State
- Photo-Mounts - Explanation and examples of real-photo Photo-Mount postcards (also known as add-ons)
- PHQ (Postal Headquarters) Postcards
- Pioneer Aviation Postcards
- Playing Cards on Postcards
- QSL Cards:
- Ham Gallery QSL Museum, a collection of QSL cards from around the world
- QSL Card, a brief description
- QSL Values and POMA Values
- Saint Anne postcards
- Saint Catherine postcards
- Silk Postcards:
- All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go: Novelty Cards of People in Silk & Embroidery
- Embroidered Silk Postcards
- Stevengraphs, Victorian silk postcards. See also Stevengraphs Bookmarks & Postcards and Other Silk Manufacturers
- Tall Tale or Exaggeration Postcards:
- Exaggeration Postcards from the Nebraska State Historical Society
- Johnson, Alfred Stanley - Novelty Postcards of Alfred Stanley Johnson: Nicely done explanation of the photographic process used to create Johnson’s tall tale real photo postcards
- Martin, William H. - “Did You Ever Have a Dream Like This?” - William H. Martin’s tall tale real-photo postcards
- World in a Postcard, The: An essay on the postcard’s cultural significance in the 20th century and its future in the Digital Age
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