1900 – 1909
The 1900s
The Golden Age begins
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From the curator
Take your time - every card in this room has its own hour.
In 1902 the divided back arrives and the postcard becomes what we know it as today: a picture on one side, room for a proper message on the other. Photographers and printers fall on the format at once, and by the end of the decade the world is drowning happily in coloured views of piers, promenades and cathedrals.
Postage is a penny. Deliveries in a large town come six or seven times a day. A card dropped in the box after breakfast can genuinely say ‘meet me at four’ and be read in time.
The handwriting is neat, sloping, taught in school. Ink is real ink. The Edwardian world is on holiday and telling everyone about it.
On display
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Opening the cabinet...