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Postcards
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The
Golden Age of Post Cards
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Along with commissioned portraits, photographers found a ready market
for locally made postcards. IN the first years of the 20th century
local photographers produced hundred of varieties featuring sites of
interest in the community.
Recent settlers could send a photo of their new town back to relatives
in the East.
Thankfully many of these have survived.
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A photo such as this would showcase the home town.
Sometimes they couldn’t resist placing a comment on the photo.
The combination of the record of correspondence and the photographic
record makes a postcard collection twice as valuable and increase the
chances that both elements survive. A look through a Post Card
collections will remind one that even resident of seemingly remote
small village were connected to the world. The following image
was on the reverse side of the previous photo.
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Businesses could use the custom made postcards as promotional items.
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An easy way to keep in touch with the flock.
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And the photographer could put in a bit of promotion for his business.
Of course Postcards have survived, and continue to be sold and used
primarily as souvenirs. We have Facebook and Instagram etc. for a
minute the obligatory by minute account of our travels. But in those
early days of travel correspondence they were a much more integral part
of everyday communication, inexpensive, easy to use, and as, noted,
sent with a sense of pride about the new town the recent settler had
chosen.
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The post card idea is here taken to a new level - six photos promoting
a town and a business.
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