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A global exploration of postcards as artifacts at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. Postcards are usually associated with banal holiday pleasantries, but they are made possible by sophisticated industries and institutions, from printers to postal services. When they were invented, postcards established what is now taken for granted in modern times: the ability to send and receive messages around the world easily and inexpensively. Fundamentally they are about creating personal connections—links between people, places, and beliefs. Lydia Pyne examines postcards on a global scale, to understand them as artifacts that are at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. In doing so, she shows how postcards were the first global social network and also, here in the twenty-first century, how postcards are not yet extinct.
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INTRODUCTION: INVENTION AND REINVENTION
1 Daniel Gifford, “Rural Americans, Postcards, and the Fiscal Transformation of the Post Office Department, 1909-1911,” in The Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposia: Selected Papers, 2010–2011 (Washington, DC, 2012), pp. 77-84.
2 Alison Rowley, phone interview, February 3, 2020.
3 Raymond Khan, interview, October 31, 2019.
4 Jia Tolentino, “The Age of Instagram Face,” www.newyorker.com, December 19, 2019.
5 Daniel Gifford, American Holiday Postcards, 1905–1915: Imagery and Context (Jefferson, NC, 2013), p. 1.
6 Daniel Gifford, “Golden Age of Postcards,” www.saturdayeveningpost.com, December 12, 2016.
7 Frank Staff, The Picture Postcard and Its Origins, 1st edn (London, 1966); Martin Willoughby, A History of Postcards: A Pictorial Record from the Turn of the Century to the Present Day (London, 1994).
8 “Postcard History,” Smithsonian Institution Archives, www.siarchives.si.edu/history, September 19, 2013.
ONE SIGNED, STAMPED, AND DELIVERED
1 Daniel Gifford, “Rural Americans, Postcards, and the Fiscal Transformation of the Post Office Department, 1909-1911,” in The Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposia: Selected Papers, 2010–2011 (Washington, DC, 2012), p. 81.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid., p. 78.
4 Michael Todd, “A Short History of Home Mail Delivery,” www.psmag.com, February 6, 2013.
5 Samuel Kernell and Michael P. McDonald, “Congress and America’s Political Development: The Transformation of the Post Office from Patronage to Service,” American Journal of Political Science, XLIII/3 (1999), pp. 792-811; Devin Leonard, Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service, reprint edn (New York, 2017).
6 Gifford, “Rural Americans, Postcards, and the Fiscal Transformation of the Post Office Department.”
7 Daniel Gifford, “Golden Age of Postcards,” www.saturdayeveningpost.com, December 12, 2016.
8 “The Postcard 'CRAZE,’” The Times-Democrat (New Orleans, Louisiana), January 2, 1909, p. 6.
9 Gifford, “Rural Americans, Postcards, and the Fiscal Transformation of the Post Office Department.”
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
12 Christopher Browne, Getting the Message: The Story of the British Post Office (Stroud, 1993).
13 Fred Bassett, “Wish You Were Here! The Story of the Golden Age of Picture Postcards in the United States,” www.nysl.nysed.gov, August 16, 2016.
14 “Oldest Postcard Sells for £31,750,” www.bbc.com, March 8, 2002.
15 Frank Staff, The Picture Postcard and Its Origins, 1st edn (London, 1966), pp. 46-7.
16 Ibid., p. 84.
17 Ibid., p. 87.
18 Ibid., p. 53.
19 Ibid., p. 49.
20 “Postcard History,” Smithsonian Institution Archives, https://siarchives.si.edu/history, September 19, 2013; Browne, Getting the Message.
21 Jason Farman, Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World (New Haven, CT, 2018).
22 Ibid., pp. 165-6; R. H. Mathews, “Message-sticks Used by the Aborigines of Australia,” American Anthropologist, X/9 (1897), pp. 288-98.
23 Jason Farman, interview, February 11, 2020.
24 A. Leo Oppenheim, Letters from Mesopotamia: Official, Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia (Chicago, IL, 1976).
25 Gerd Gropp, “The Development of a Near Eastern...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION: INVENTION AND REINVENTION
- ONE: SIGNED, STAMPED, AND DELIVERED
- TWO: THE MEANS OF MASS PRODUCTION
- THREE: PUBLICITY AND PROPAGANDA
- FOUR: HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME, WISH YOU WERE HERE
- FIVE: POSTCARDS FROM COUNTRIES THAT NO LONGER EXIST
- CONCLUSION: THE AFTERLIVES OF POSTCARDS
- REFERENCES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX