#postcardsfromsalone

Unknown photographer but this was published in  Freetown, Sierra Leone, dated: 5-10-1924

1933 Freetown postcard by Lisk-Carew Brothers

What a collection! ---”Throughout the period of European colonialism in Africa, #postcards played an important role in popularizing the venture of European colonial rule and in perpetuating long-held stereotypes of the vast African continent” 

Little East Street 

My letter-loving and postcard-making made it into the @guardian (March 23 2021!): “For Najmeh Modarres, 37, letter-writing was an act of memorialisation prompted by an earlier health crisis....” 

Emily Dickenson

“Postcards are of particular interest to Karen because their status as ‘minor’ photography means they can create unofficial archives of the sites and sights represented. During their ‘Golden Age’, the popularity of ‘Real Photographic Post Cards’ facilitated armchair travel for the working classes who wouldn’t have access to a camera or the means to visit the places depicted. In Mean Time, postcard views are deliberately suppressed and distorted to question the assumed familiarity of a landmark.”