Stefan Bohacek on Nostr: "Also called “Private Mailing Cards”, the earliest postcards had no images, just ...

"Also called “Private Mailing Cards”, the earliest postcards had no images, just a message on one side and an address on the other.

In the late nineteenth century, postcards were still so new that they included instructions on how to use them."

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/scenes-of-reading-on-the-early-portrait-postcard/

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