Dreamers Rise

This double-view postcard of scenes from Orkney was issued by J. M. Stevenson, a longtime stationer in Kirkwall and Stromness. It also bears...

It's very difficult, at least for me, to make out the long inscription on this Real Photo postcard, but the language is apparently Germ...

This postcard portrait of a woman who signed only her first name was addressed to one Señora Doña Leonora de Esteban in Castro Urdiales in n...

This merits a look: Re-envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th-Century Visual and Material Culture , a new "interactive archiv...

Two men with lit cigars and a third man, seated, whose own smoke is still tucked in his pocket. Though the postcard was never addressed or...

"Just a few of our crowd and guess you will know the majority of them. If not will tell you of them later." Mailed from Salina, Ka...

Three more Real Photo postcards, possibly from western Pennsylvania. The one above has the following inscription on the reverse of the c...

The images on this page reproduce part of a group of Real Photo postcards that may have originated in western Pennsylvania. The one above...

These two postcards were mailed five years apart, the first to an address in Kutná Hora (or Kuttenberg) in Bohemia and the second from Kutn...

Three women in elaborate hats, two men in railway uniforms, a third man — and a very large dog. Real Photo postcard, location unidentified b...

Dear Dr. Wight, How have you been since I left M. G. H.? I have arrived at Yokohama at the beginning of last June and I am now with all...

This postcard of Stockholm was mailed from that city in 1903 by one Annie Sundberg and addressed to Mademoiselle Candelaria Benítez Inglott...

This postcard "view of the lower town" of Eupen, Belgium, was printed by Kunstverlag Ferdinand Schweitzer in Aachen, across the Ge...

The first few times I looked at this Real Photo postcard, without benefit of magnification, I succumbed to an optical illusion so strong tha...

These two Azo Real Photo postcards date from roughly the same period (c. 1904-1918) and may or may not have any connection with each other. ...

This postcard of the Connecticut River at Greenfield, Massachusetts was postmarked in nearby Turners Falls on January 29, 1909 and sent to a...

We seem to have an innate need to tell stories, even when the raw material is lacking. I suppose that it's part of our way of making sen...

I have spun off a separate blog, The Rotograph Project , to serve as a virtual gallery for the display and interpretation of the American vi...

This photographic postcard, most likely created between 1907-1914, depicts a family group against the backdrop of a snowy field. The identit...

This postcard of the Brooklyn Bridge and the adjacent waterfront, published by the Rotograph Co., was postmarked in 1905. Offering a view of...