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What A Card.

Posted by Christopher Waldrop

May 15, 2008 |

The Nashville Public Library is having a postcard-collecting workshop on Saturday, May 19th, 2008. A library seems like an especially fitting place to talk about collecting and preserving postcards, since libraries are all about books and also librarians also run across a lot of postcards (and other ephemera) in old books that have been donated. Even if you’re not into collecting postcards, check out the PostSecret Project, which has spawned a whole series of books of postcards. The project, started in 2004, was simple: write a secret you’ve never told anyone and mail it in. The secrets range from hilarious to seriously disturbing.


I’m not strictly speaking a postcard collector myself, but I’ve got a very small collection of three or four postcards I’ve found in old books, along with a larger collection of postcards of places I’ve been. I hate looking “touristy” by carrying around a camera…so instead I buy postcards. If you understand the logic of this, please write it on a postcard and mail it to me.


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  1. laughingwolf on May 15, 2008 6:05 am

    blogs and emails are modern postcards, open to all kinds of eyeballs….

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