1950 – 1959
The 1950s
Chrome, colour, and the family holiday
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From the curator
Take your time - every card in this room has its own hour.
Kodachrome arrives on the postcard rack. Skies are suddenly, impossibly blue. Cars are enormous, motels have pools, and every seaside town in Britain has a card of its illuminations.
This is the great decade of the ‘chrome’ card: glossy, saturated, printed to look like a holiday brochure whether the sun was out or not.
The handwriting is confident and rounded. The messages are warm, funny, often silly. People are on holiday and they mean it.
On display
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Opening the cabinet...