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…
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 Websites
America As It Was—Directory of non-profit web sites that feature 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.
San Francisco Bay Area Post Card Club—General information and links.
Story of the Golden Age of Picture Postcards—A pdf file of a 4 page essay from New York State Library
Vintage Postcards—Dealer site has a good list of reference links and general information.
Postcard Blogs
9teen87spostcards—A collection of stamped mailed 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.
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.
postcard.blog.com—Researching the cultural impact of postcards.
postcardy.blogspot.com—Exhibits of interesting collectible postcards and related information.
PostSecret—Community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. (WARNING: NOT GOOD FOR KIDS.)
Postcard Collections & Exhibits—Personal
66postcards.com—Collection of postcards from"The Mother Road"
Alexandria (Louisiana) Postcard Collection
Boy Scout Postcards From the U.S.
Chicago World's Fair—Century of Progress Exposition 1933-34
Christmas Postcards—Livaudais Christmas Collection
Comic Postcards—Tacky comics of the 1940's to 1960's.
Cuban Postcard Museum (Hilda's)
Dimensions Gallery—Weight Gain and Fat comic postcards.
Disney Collection—My Disney Collection is a collection of books, postcards, and trading cards
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
HRH The Duke of Connaught & Family Postcard Gallery—Royalty Postcards
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.
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 Tokyo—Vintage Images From Japan
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
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.
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.
Ye Old Outhouse—Outhouse Postcards.
Postcard Collections & Exhibits—Organization
America's National Parks—Yellowstone 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
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 the University of Michigan— History of the picture postcard, the architect's use of the postcard, and the collecting craze.
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
Modern Postcards
Pulp Fiction Postcards—Postcards of Classic Pulp Fiction Magazine and Vintage Paperback Book Covers.
Postcard Collecting Tips
Postcarding Tips—Things that you should know when you trade postcards.
How to Mail Collectible 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
Humor and Satire
Cap'n Wacky Reader Postcards—Real postcards with snide comments
"The Yawn"—Satire about a boring postcard book that has not been written and probably never will be!
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.
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.
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.
Website Design
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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