The History of Postcards

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Postcards were invented for a reason relatively recently, because they were cheap to mail. In this one company's collection, you get a very more completet run of every postcard they ever made. So what is the history of postcards? Did they just always exist, like forever? Like did the dinosaurs pop em in the mail and they're like, hed i mexico for vaquet? No, man made for some red sunsets thouh talk to you later.

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

More episode sources & links

Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month

OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes!

Follow @Ologies on Twitter and Instagram

Follow @AlieWard on Twitter and Instagram

Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris

Theme song by Nick Thorburn