Wish You Were Here: Some Brief Notes on the History of Postcards

In the years before the telephone and then the Internet transformed our communication systems, postcards were an efficient and fun way to connect with friends and family. Postcards were not only encouraged while traveling away from home for work or leisure, it was a way to inexpensively send notes to people just to let them know you were thinking about them. Along the way, it became a very important means of communication throughout the 20th Century and into the 21st. This presentation shares…