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Greetings from Delaware: A Century of Postcards

Greetings from Delaware: A Century of Postcards

https://exhibitions.lib.udel.edu/greetings-from-delaware/

Postcards have long been a part of American material culture, yet they did not always look like they do now.  Distinguished as cards intended for mailing without an envelope, their history extends back to the mid-nineteenth century.  Greetings from Delaware: A Century of Postcards charts the history of postcards from Delaware from 1898 through 2009.  Drawn from the Library’s Delaware Postcard Collection, these objects of local ephemera demonstrate not only how postcards changed over time but also how different Delaware locales developed throughout the last century.

This exhibition is curated by Meghan Angelos, a Ph.D. candidate in Art History.
Please join Meghan for a discussion about the exhibition, with a special look at real photo postcards, on April 6 at 12pm ET.  For more information about the event and to register, visit: https://library.udel.edu/events/events/?id=374