As every postcard collector knows, the same place (railroad depot, restaurant, local view, etc.) can be depicted by photographers in many different ways. Read More +
Linens and Beyond: Main Street Masterpieces
Author Archives: Don Preziosi
1967 The summer of love
In 1967 I was twenty years old, in the middle of college, and facing the Vietnam draft. So I have paid nostalgic attention to the 40th anniversary of one of the great cultural events of my generation. Read More +
Turning the Tables: Deer Hunting Season
One of my great joys collecting postcards is realizing how many strange collecting categories it is possible to come up with. I have to admit that I never specifically looked or asked dealers for postcards of deer behaving like hunters! Read More +
LINENS & BEYOND: Curt Teich topical linens at the Jackson Auction
For anyone at all interested in linen postcards, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006, was a remarkable day. That was the day that duplicate linen postcards from the Curt Teich archives were offered for auction at Jackson’s Auctions in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Read More +
Leading ladies of the laboratories – pharmaceutical tour guides
Over the years I’ve come across a number of postcards of a bunch of women in identical outfits arranged in classic group poses – lined up, fanned out, and stepped arrangements. Read More +
Postcards from the Société Anonyme
The Society Anonyme, a group made up of some of the most avant-garde artists of its day, can rightfully claim to be New York’s first museum of modern art. Read More +
Top 10 New Year’s resolutions
It is that time of the year when people make New Year’s resolutions and publications make all sorts of lists: best, worst, favorites and so on, usually consisting of ten items. Why not combine the two and explore the postcard possibilities of illustrating them? Read More +
Linens & Beyond: Isn’t she lovely?
Not every beauty queen can be Miss America! Read More +