Dreamers Rise

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...

Langston The image above is unlabelled, but knowing that its likely provenance was Oklahoma made it possible to take a guess at its loc...

These photographs represent what are apparently fragments of a single African-American family album or family collection that was recent...

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...

The young woman whose likeness was captured in this Real Photo postcard image was a schoolteacher in Red Wing (or Redwing), Kansas in 19...

"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...

These two faded and stained studio portraits of African-American couples were taken sometime in the early decades of the twentieth century...

Around the beginning of the 20th century a marriage took place between two nascent media: the postcard, which was becoming the source of an...

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...

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

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. ...