The post card was first introduced in Germany in the 1860's. Business and tourist marketing via post cards immediately caught on in a world that did not as yet have a camera in every hand. Sending and receiving these cards was an exciting way to share pictures of less familiar places in earlier and simpler times. Collecting post cards became a hobby as popular as using them for correspondence. The period between 1896 and 1914 was the "heyday" of the...
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