Results for "Postcards"
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Dating Postcards
- Date: September 19, 2013
- Description: There are several ways to date postcards that are seemingly undated. This page provides a few general methods for determining a time period or date for postcards.GENERAL POSTCARD CHRONOLOGY[edan-image:id=siris_sic_13846,size=250,left]Postcard producers printed cards that followed the current trends of postcards. Dates can be approximated by the material and design of a
The Mystery of the Undated Postcards
- Date: July 23, 2013
- Description: Revamping our online postcard exhibit poses the challenge of dating unused postcards. Here’s how I have hunted down clues to solve the mystery!
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Postcards on the Edge
- Date: February 18, 2010
- Description: One of the largest collections of real photo postcards at the Smithsonian can be found in the conveniently titled “post card collection” in the Eliot Elisofon Archives at the National Museum of African Art. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Madagascar - Le bel album venu de France, c. 1905, by Unknown photograher, Postcard, National Museum of African Art,
- SI History Chronology
Postcards Distributed to Servicemen
- Date: 1943
- Field Book
Postcards from Bolivia
- Date: 1915 1915 1915
- Creator: Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939
- Collection
Reproductions and Postcards of Selected Works, 1974
- Date: 1974
- Creator: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. T90126, Smithsonian Institution Press, Postcards, 1931, 1956, and undated
- Date: 1931 1931, 1956, and undated
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Press
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Field Book
Postcards from Revelstoke, Vancouver and the Skeena River in British Columbia and Wrangell, Alaska
- Date: 1898-1918 1898 1918
- Creator: Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939
- Field Book
Field notes, vicinity of Virginia Beach and Cape Henry, 1913, Includes maps and postcards of the area
- Date: 1913 19130207 19130217
- Creator: Vaughan, Thomas Wayland, 1870-1952
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Postcard History
- Date: September 19, 2013
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_13918,size=350,right] Postcards, as we are familiar with them today, have taken a considerable amount of time to develop. First restricted by size, color, and other regulations, postcard production blossomed in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Postcards were popular because they were a quick and easy way for individuals to communicate with each other.
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Postcard Galleries
- Date: September 19, 2013
- Description: Explore our collections and see the evolution of the postcard by looking through the image galleries below. The galleries include both postcards of Smithsonian museums, research facilities, iconic objects and non-Smithsonian themed postcards.
New Year, New Postcard Exhibit
- Date: January 28, 2014
- Description: For the new year our “Greetings from the Smithsonian” postcard exhibit has a new look and updated content!