Postcard Facts for Kids

Postcard depicting a steamship

Typical other side of the postcard, with the address, and a message

A postcard or post card is a rectangular piece of paper or cardboard, which is intended to send a short message by post. Usually, a postcard is mailed without an envelope. Modern postcards usually have a photo or an image on one side of the card, the other side contains space for writing the address and a short message. The first postcards were used in the second half of the 19th century. Today, many people send postcards when they are on holiday. The designs of post cards have evolved since the early ages and many prefer to send personalized post cards now which gives a personal touch or adds a feeling or emotion to it.

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Example of a court card, postmarked 1899, showing Robert Burns and his cottage and monument in Ayr
Postcard depicting people boarding a train at the Shawnee Depot in Colorado, late 1800s.
Lipman's Postal Card
"Feldpost-Correspondenzkarte" (lit. field post correspondence card) used during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870
Postcard depicting Dalhousie Street, Amherstburg, Ontario in [ca. 1920] from the Alvin D. McCurdy fonds held at the Archives of Ontario
Postcard by Takehisa Yumeji, 1912
A seaside postcard
American 'divided back' postcard, 1916
A tinted (black-and-white image that has had colored tint added) souvenir card. Image of the Christopher Columbus taken circa 1896.
Ōura Church, hand-tinted postcard
"Large Letter" card c. 1940s
A Topographical postcard of Benwick, UK
Entry of the Great Mosque of Kairouan, postcard from 1900
Fortress in Vyborg, postcard from 1917
Richmond, Virginia, c. late 1923. The intersection shown is at 8th & Broad Streets.
Hawaiian Aloha nui Postcard c. 1908
German postcard with inscription "This beer belongs to my master!"
Gruss aus-type postcard, published by the Munich based German printing house Purger & Co.

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