Postcards from the past

The humble postcard is making a comeback after it was almost stamped out by mobile phones and email
  
  


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1902: A French postcard of two bathing belles posing by a bathing hut 'on the beach' Photograph: Hulton/Getty
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Crica 1900: Hand-coloured photographic postcard of Middle Eastern women and children riding in a donkey cart Photograph: Getty
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1910: Lake Keuka, New York Photograph: Getty
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crica 1910: O'Reilly Street, Havana, Cuba, Photograph: Getty
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1915: Colourised postcard entitiled 'Hawaiian Music Girls' Photograph: Getty
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1930s: A woman looking at a selection of seaside postcards Photograph: Hulton/Getty
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1951: A sailor looking at a selection of postcards in Blackpool Photograph: Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty
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2007: Postcards for sale in Cornwall Photograph: Linda Nylind
 

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