The Fascination of Collecting Postcards
August 14, 2009 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
Collecting postcards takes many forms and can be a fascinating hobby as well as translating itself into an outgrowth of one’s art. My husband and I attended a talk at the local historical society where a town citizen displayed and talked about the old postcards he collected of our area.
He had researched the cardmakers and the topics. He told stories, too, of his adventures in collecting them.
This brought to mind the postcards collected in my family.
My inlaws have a scrapbook of postcards acquired on a trip to Scotland and England.
I had found postcards my parents collected on a trip from …read more




