ST. CLOUD — A favorite pastime of the late Harold Zosel Jr. was scouring piles of postcards at conventions where collectors gathered to buy and sell memorabilia. But finding the perfect rare postcard ...

Long before postcards were relegated to reminders of dental checkup and oil changes, they delivered well wishes and news of safe travels. Their pictures prompted hearty laughs, showed off notable ...

THE WORLD’S FIRST POSTCARD WAS PRINTED THIS WEEK IN 1869. IN AN ARTICLE BY THE NEUE FREIE PRESS, AUSTRIAN PROFESSOR DR. EMANUEL HERRMANN EXPRESSED HIS FRUSTRATION WITH THE TIME AND EFFORT IT TOOK TO ...

Elephants marched through town right past the Point of Rocks. It's not a sight you'd see today, but at the beginning of the 20th century, when the circus was in town, it happened. Still, this image ...

It's been nearly 150 years since the postcard first came on the scene. The great-grandparent to tweets, profiles, feeds and other social media, postcards were once the most efficient and cheapest form ...

Vintage postcards will be the subject of our next free public history program. On Tuesday, March 4, at 7 p.m., UW-La Crosse assistant professor Laura Godden will give a presentation on postcard ...

In the April 14, 1986, edition of the Arkansas Gazette, a photo of a parade in downtown Little Rock was published. The image was from 1910. Its caption reads: "The Elks parade passes through the ...

At its core, the idea of a postcard is deceptively simple: a portable visual object, often functioning as a souvenir of place, memory, or moment. Between the 1890s and the 1920s was a period now ...