Recommended Reading

There are lots of fantastic books about postcards, paper ephemera, and photography. Here are some of my favorites that I can enthusiastically recommend:

Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People's Photography by Robert Bogdan

As We Were: American Photographic Postcards, 1905-1930 by Rosamond B. Vaule

Real Photo Postcards: Unbelievable Images from the Collection of Harvey Tulcensky by Laetitia Wolff

Folk Photography: The American Real-Photo Postcard, 1905-1930 by Luc Sante

The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection by Lynda Klich and Benjamin Weiss

Postcard America: Curt Teich and the Imaging of a Nation, 1931-1950 by Jeffrey L. Meikle

Prairie Fires and Paper Moons: The American Photographic Postcard 1900-1920 by Hal Morgan and Andreas Brown

Feel free to email me with further reading suggestions at artfulgeographic@gmail.com!

Note: I have not included any of the many price guides for postcards available on the market because they are almost universally out of date. They may, however, prove interesting to those who simply want to look at rare or interesting cards.