In rural America at the beginning of the twentieth century, the worldwide postcard craze coincided with the spread of light, cheap photographic equipment. The result was the real-photo postcard, ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — John Penrod, a prolific photographer whose pictures of Michigan have been displayed in calendars and on postcards, has died. He was 86. Starks Family Funeral Homes says Penrod ...

Sometimes it takes a small press to make a truly interesting book. Yeti Books, with the help of Verse Chorus Press in Portland, Ore., is behind “Folk Photography: The American Real-Photo Postcard 1905 ...

As I’ve mentioned before in a couple columns, the golden age of postcards was generally considered to be the 1910s to the 1930s. Starting in the 1930s, though, senders of postcards could purchase ones ...

Click to open image viewer. IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This real ...

For the creative pioneers who embraced early photographic technology, producing “art” was very much a matter of trial and error. As Anne Havinga, Estrellita and ...

For documentary photographer Edward Boches, the Allston neighborhood is “like a magnet.” He loves the signs and murals, which he has captured in high definition over the last year. The barber shops.