History of postcards in the United States

The history of postcards is part of the cultural history of the United States. Especially after 1900, "the postcard was wildly successful both as correspondence and collectible" and thus postcards are valuable sources for cultural historians as both a form of epistolary literature and for the bank of cultural imagery included in the postcard illustrations reflecting historic popular culture norms and tropes.^[1] Postcards are also valuable resources for scholars of architectural and regional history.^[2]

^ Ferguson, Sandra (September 2006). ""A Murmur of Small Voices": On the Picture Postcard in Academic Research". Archivaria (60). First International Conference on the History of Records and Archives. The Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists: 167–184. ISSN 1923-6409.
^ Marjonovic, Igor (2004). Postcards and the Making of Architectural History: The Case of the Alvin Boyarsky and Rem Koolhaas. ACSA Press. ISBN 978-0-935502-54-1.

[:1-1] Ferguson, Sandra (September 2006). ""A Murmur of Small Voices": On the Picture Postcard in Academic Research". Archivaria (60). First International Conference on the History of Records and Archives. The Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists: 167–184. ISSN 1923-6409.

[2] Marjonovic, Igor (2004). Postcards and the Making of Architectural History: The Case of the Alvin Boyarsky and Rem Koolhaas. ACSA Press. ISBN 978-0-935502-54-1.

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