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Article: Postcard images reveal the history
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- June 4, 2000
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Postcard images reveal the history, and tackiness, of 20th-
century America
By DENNIS MCCANN
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Sunday, June 4, 2000
Wauconda, Ill. -- Before e-mail there was p-mail.
P for postcard, and p for penny. So cheap and easy to send,
postcards burst onto the world scene in 1889 to mark completion of
the Eiffel Tower. The post office had sold penny postcards earlier
than that, but these were the first commercial cards, so colorful and
inventive, and by the 1893 World Expo in Chicago, the craze had
become unstoppable.
Stores could advertise on postcards, history could be recorded.
Thanks to photo processing paper on postcard stock, any photograph
could be made into a penny ...