The Love of Postcards

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A curator at the henry ford, you also deal with the collect on of them. How many postcards do you think you have in the collections here? A few thousand. They're all nicely organized by topic, usually state. The main one is all indexed in our computer. So we can look up any topic, or any state, or any year and find those postcards,. Then just dig them out and look at them. There are pictures of most of them as well. And then there's a whole another collection that i found more recently which was kind of like this papery time capsule into postcards past. I don't know if they had to wear gloves to touch

Why were postcards invented and why do they still exist? Why do we lie to people and say our lives are better than they are? Alie stopped into the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan and talked to curator of 40 years, Donna Braden, about her work with the postcard collections -- as well as her musings about how emotions impact memory, why Americans love to hit the open road and what the biggest postcard you're allowed to mail is. Listen while riding off into the sunset or sipping tea on a porch and then send someone you love a giant postcard because you can.

The Henry Ford Museum Postcard Archive

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