Reading Room
Guides
Short, curator-written guides to the postcards in this museum - what they are, how to read them, and how to keep them.
Collecting Vintage Postcards
A curator's introduction to collecting: what to look for, how to display and frame cards, and the small details that separate a keepsake from a piece worth keeping.
Dating and Valuing Postcards
Identifying the era of a card by its back, stamp box and postmark, with a plain-language guide to the factors that move a postcard from a pound to a small fortune.
How to Write a Postcard
The address side, the message, the salutation and the sign-off - a short guide to the etiquette that has kept the form alive for more than a century.