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This page consists of carefully selected links to websites dealing with postcards. It can be difficult to find postcard sites of interest to postcard collectors. The most obvious search terms tend to return a lot of results dealing with postcard printing and electronic postcards. And then there are the sites not really worth a visit…

Some other sources for viewing postcards on the internet are flickr (pictures of postcards and postcard related things) and ebay (for buying or selling postcards).

General Postcard Websites
Blogs Featuring Postcards
Postcard Collections & Exhibits—Personal
Postcard Collections & Exhibits—Organization
Modern Postcards
Postcard Collecting Tips
Humor and Satire
Miscellaneous Postcard Related Websites
Website Design

General Postcard Articles & Websites

America As It Was—Directory of non-profit web sites that feature vintage postcards.

Antique Trader Postcard Articles

eHow articles:
How to collect Vintage Postcards
How to Start a Postcard Collection
How to Start Collecting Postcards
How to Travel Back in Time with Vintage Postcards

Greetings From the Country—An article about the University of Washington Libraries Postcard Collection discusses how we can learn from and exhibit old postcards.

Heavy Metal Madness: Greetings from Big Letters USA —Curt Teich printing and large letter postcards.

Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York City—Lots of information on postcard history, terms, publishers, and topics.

Postcard Collecting at 176th Street Antiques—Reasons to collect and a collector interview.

Postcard Pages—UK website operated by Postcard Traders Association.

Postcards Recall Memories of the American Road—From the National Postal Museum. Good article, but no pictures.

Postcard Resources—List of webpages dealing with postcards.

Postcard Web

Pretty as a Picture . . . Postcard—Some postcard history and description of printing process.

San Francisco Bay Area Post Card Club—General information, newletters, and links.

Story of the Golden Age of Picture Postcards—A pdf file of a 4 page essay from New York State Library

Vintage Postcard Collector Interview — From Collectors' Weekly

Vintage Postcard Passion: Collector Topics — On Squidoo.

Vintage Postcards—Dealer site has a good list of reference links and general information.

Webfooters Post Card Club (Portland, Oregon)—Collecting tips and newsletter archive.

Wish I Were There—Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries

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Postcard Blogs

Note: There are a number of recently (2008) started blogs displaying current postcards received from around the world.

9teen87spostcards—A collection of stamped mailed postcards.

A Postcard a Day—Worldwid, mostly modern postcards.

About Postcards —A reference resource for the UK postcard collector.

Alec Millard's Cherryland Postcard Blog—About antique postcards

Ephemera/Postcards—Exploring the world of old paper.

Having a Nice Time—Vintage postcards including the date, message and image caption.

Judy's Postcards Plus

Life in a Postcard Mirror—The picture postcard as art, visual document and popular culture icon.

Mail Art Postcard Exhibition

Malls of America—Vintage photos of lost Shopping Malls of the '50s, '60s & '70s.

Moody's Postcard Blog—Antique postcards.

Motel Hell—Tacky and trashy Motel postcards of the 1950's, 60's and 70's.

My Postcard Collection—A collection of Thai advertising postcards.

postcard.blog.com—Researching the cultural impact of postcards.

Postcarddiva Postcard Blog—Educational blog about fantasy and old holiday postcards.

postcardy.blogspot.com—Exhibits of interesting collectible postcards and related information. Has a longer and more current bloglist.

PostSecret—Community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. (WARNING: NOT GOOD FOR KIDS.)

Wild Postcards—Ramblings and remembrances about a personal collection of postcards.

Worldwide Bridge Maximum Card Collecting

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Postcard Collections & Exhibits—Personal

66postcards.com—Collection of postcards from"The Mother Road"

Alexandria (Louisiana) Postcard Collection

Alameda Info—Postcards from Alameda, California and some other areas, mainly in California. Santa's Village, Drive Thru Redwood Trees, etc. Also Expo 67, New York and Seattle world's fairs of 1960s.

Boy Scout Postcards From the U.S.

Carte-Postale.com—Vintage postcards from France (English introduction)

Chicago World's Fair—Century of Progress Exposition 1933-34

Chicago Postcard Museum

Christmas Postcards—Livaudais Christmas Collection

Chuckman's Collection (Chicago Postcards) Volume 01 — Includes links to many additional volumes of Chicago Postcards.

Cincinnati Views — A large (over 8,000) collection of vintage Cincinnati postcards

Comic Postcards—Tacky comics of the 1940's to 1960's.

Corkscrew Postcard Gallery

Cowboy Poetry Postcards

Cuban Postcard Museum (Hilda's)

Denver's History in Postcards

Dimensions GalleryWeight Gain and Fat comic postcards.

Diner Postcard Collection

Disney CollectionMy Disney Collection is a collection of books, postcards, and trading cards

Disneyland Postcards

Duluth Postcards

Easter Postcards from 1898 till Today—Cards can be viewed or sent as e-cards.

Family in a Shoebox—Researching a family from messages found on postcards in a shoebox bought at a yard sale.

Florida's Historic Courthouses

Fruit From Washington—Exaggerated Fruit and Novelty Cards

Historic Postcards of Women

HRH The Duke of Connaught & Family Postcard Gallery—Royalty Postcards

Iowa State Fair Postcards

Library Postcards: Civic Pride in a Lost America

Mainzer Dressed Cats

Map Postcards Picture Galleries—U. K. (most). U. S., rest of the world

Mazaika Postcard Gallery Page —Many Soviet era Russian greeting postcards. The gallery page is part of a site devoted to photomosaics made using Mazaika software.

Motel Americana

Motel Postcards — Chrome postcards with interesting signs.

Mount Holyoke College Postcard Collection

My Grandmother's Postcards—Two collections: Greetings cards from an album, and 1920's to 1940's vacation postcards.

Old Minneapolis Postcards

Old Postcards from Brazil

Old Tokyo—Vintage Images From Japan

Playing Card Themed Postcards

PostMark Press—Galleries display pre-1920 vintage images on many subjects.

Postcard and Greeting Card Museum—An Internet museum of vintage and modern greeting cards

Postcard Birmingham

Postcards From Hamilton's Past

Postcards From the Edge of Good Taste—N.Y. Times article on tacky postcards, no pictures.

Postcards From the Front—Postcards sent by a WWI soldier to his children.

Propaganda Postcards of the Great War—War-themed postal cards produced during World War 1.

Railroad Postcard Museum — Vintage railroad related postcards from the early 20th Century.

Rotograph—Study of postcards produced by the Rotograph Postcard Company.

Route 66 University—The Postcards & Artifacts section has an online collection of vintage Route 66 poscards.

Santalady's Antique Santa Post Cards

The American Motel—Vintage motels.

Union College Postcard Collection

U. S. Highway 90—Southern route roadside.

Walt Disney World a History in Postcards

Wigwam Nation—Roadside wigwam and teepee structures.

Williamsburg Postcards

Ye Old Outhouse—Outhouse Postcards.

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Postcard Collections & Exhibits—Organization

America's National ParksYellowstone Before the Auto and Golden Age of Park Roads by the National Park Service.

Art of the Japanese Postcard—The Lauder Collection at MFA Boston.

ArtUkraine.com Postcards—Many eras and types.

Californian-Pacific Exposition—San Diego 1935-1936.

Curt Teich Postcard Archives—World's largest public collection of postcards and related materials.

Dallas Heritage Village Postcard Collection

The Great War 1914-1918 —Emory University postcards and poetry from WWI.

Greetings From Milwaukee—From the archives at UWM libraries

Historic Postcards—Mainly holiday postcards from the collection at the Salem (OR) Public Library

HistoryPoint.org—Fredericksburg, VA postcards

The National Library of Russia Exhibitions—Articles on various subjects and eras on Russian postcards.

Onondaga County Library Postcard Collection

Panama-California Exposition—San Diego 1915-1916.

Postcards of Cleveland

Postcards of Ireland

Postcards of the University of Michigan— History of the picture postcard, the architect's use of the postcard, and the collecting craze.

Princeton University Historical Postcard Collection

Rarely Seen Richmond

Southwest Colorado Collection

Tall Tale Postcards

UCM Museum—"Louisiana's Most Eccentric Museum" has several postcard exhibits including U.S. Highway 90

University of Delaware Library Postcard Collection

University of Delaware Library Postcard Collection

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Modern Postcards

I Like John Hinde—John Hinde was an Irish photographer and postcard publisher.

Pulp Fiction Postcards—Postcards of Classic Pulp Fiction Magazine and Vintage Paperback Book Covers.

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Postcard Collecting Tips

A Love for Old Postcards

Postcarding Tips—Things that you should know when you trade postcards.

How to Mail Collectible Postcards

National Postcard Week—The first week in May. Information on exchanging postcards.

Postcard enthusiasts 'collect' in Asheboro—Article on postcard collecting from the Asheboro, North Carolina Courier-Tribune

Sample Postcard Database Form—From the Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College

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Humor and Satire

Cap'n Wacky Reader Postcards—Real postcards with snide comments

Postcard Madness—Humor & cultural parody in actual travel postcard messages

"The Yawn"—Satire about a boring postcard book that has not been written and probably never will be!

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Miscellaneous Postcard Related Websites

24kVintageArt.com—Printable greeting cards from vintage postcards

AnyOtherBids.com—Alternative low-cost auction site for buying and selling postcards. There is also a forum for postcard discussions.

Antique Postcard Art—The artist paints on the mat surrounding an antique postcard.

Better Travel Souvenirs - Watercolor Postcards—Instructions for making your own.

Fabric Postcards—Instructions for making fabric postcards.

Great Postcard Hunt—[Note: This blog disappeared. Search for "rephotography" if interested in this subject]. A blog and a group pairing old postcards with new digicam pictures of the same scene.

Magic Postcards. Mail Art.—A blog with original art postcards.

Maximum Cards—A maximum card is a similar postcard and stamp tied together by an appropriate postmark.

Postcard Collector—U.S. collectors magazine.

Postcards from the Edge—Tutorial on making retro postcards using graphics software.

Postmark Press—Vintage postcard images used for packaging, cards, and other products

United States Postal Service NetPost Services—Create and mail your own custom postcards.

Using Postcards in the Classroom

The2buds Postcard Supplies—Sleeves, pages, albums, etc. for postcards, comics, etc.

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Website Design

How to Make a Website—Monster Guide

Web Pages That Suck—Examples of common design mistakes to avoid

Wish You Were Here—A web design activism site provides tips presented in postcard format

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