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What's With All Those Postcards?

Presenter: 
Richard A. Sauers (Riverview Cemetery)
Presentation type: 
Paper
Abstract: 

The nation’s first pictorial postcards were printed as commemorative souvenirs of the World’s Columbian Exposition is Chicago in 1893. These cards and those that followed are grouped into six categories: Pioneer Era Cards (1861-1898), Private Mailing Cards (1898-1901), Undivided Back Cards (1901-1907), Divided Back Cards (1907-1915), White Border Cards (1916-1930), Linen Cards (1930-1945), Chrome Cards (1939-present), and of particular interest, Real Photo Cards (1900-present).

As with other ephemeral items that provide a “snapshot” in time, this paper will illustrate a number of postcards depicting cemeteries, gravemarkers, and monuments, and will focus on several case studies that make use of postcards to augment these “stories in stone.”

Scheduled on: 
Friday, November 8, 9:30 am to 10:45 am

About the presenter

Richard A. Sauers

Cemetery historian at Riverview Cemetery in Trenton, N.J., and chair of MAPACA Death in American Culture.

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