Penny Black Stamp Postcard . The oldest known picture postcard was sold in 2002 at the London Stamp Exchange auction for just under $50,000 dollars. Posted in 1840, the postcard's value lay in its ...

Tall-tale postcards showing exaggerated produce and animals emerged as part of the “postcard mania” in the United States in the late 1800s to the 1920s.

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Lowell Joerg, of Stockton, California, found the 1940-era postcard in an antique store in the Golden State. The 96-year-old retiree collects old postcards like this, researches them and then ...

The Superior, replacing a wooden bath house from the 1800s, opened in 1916 at a cost of $68,000. ... Send questions or comments to Arkansas Postcard Past, P.O. Box 2221, Little Rock, AR 72203 ...

I do have some of the uh cards that were issued in 1893. Don Brown describes his home in Myerstown as *** house of cards and it is literally it features real photographic postcards produced ...

Hot Springs, 1904: The pictured white frame Ozark Bath House dates back to the late 1800s. Per the front of the card, a course of 21 baths with an attendant cost $9. The Ozark was replaced in 1922 ...

I even buy old postcards at thrift and antique shops, and the Friends of the Library bookshop has packets and really nice postcards for $1. This really brightens the seniors’ days and lets the ...

A 96-year-old postcard collector from Stockton, ... “Some time ago I was at an antique store and found this old circa 1907 picture card of your beautiful City Hall,” Joerg wrote.

RETRO FIND: Crazy collections of postcards, cannons and carriages These history-filled collections will amaze you. I do have some of the uh cards that were issued in 1893.