If you've ever come across an old postcard tucked away in a drawer or attic, you might be sitting on a surprising treasure.

Postcards are history on paper. Sometimes they reflect interests and mores of another time, sometimes they document what was. Which is why many dealers and collectors flipped through their holdings in ...

A Detroit design group that has worked on restoring some of Detroit’s most historic buildings released vintage postcards that can be found throughout the city. Kraemer Design Group designed the 10 ...

Dede Horan‘s avocation as a postcard collector started when she was about 10 years old, and heard something drop between the fireplace mantel and her bedroom wall. She reached behind the mantel and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Happy New Year! Now is a good time to reminisce about yesterday while looking forward to the future. Back on May 19, 1898, our government gave private printers the ability to mail ...

A snapshot in time can tell a long-forgotten story of bygone days. Old photos and postcards are an irreplaceable asset to historical societies, archivists and genealogists. For Mark Jacobson, a ...

Leonard Lauder was first drawn to postcards as a boarding school student in Miami Beach. Lauder, the 85-year-old chairman emeritus of the Estée Lauder Companies, especially loved the ones that area ...

The Whitney Museum has opened a mid-career survey showcasing three decades worth of work created by New York-based artist, Zoe Leonard. The first large-scale overview of the artist’s work in an ...

The Garcias never figured they would care that much about a pile of postcards. “It started because we were always forgetting the camera,” says Marie Garcia, who has three kids and lives in White Bear ...

How many postcards did you send when you were last on holiday? Perhaps it depends on your age. A survey carried out by a travel firm in 2012 found that 45% of British holidaymakers had never sent a ...