Postcard of the Day

[fflo]

 

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[peteralway.livejournal.com]

That's a place that would be cool to discover, but I can't imagine sending home a postcard of it. Unless this is a one-off personal snapshot made into a postcard, so that the people in the picture are the people sending it--I keep wondering if that's how some of the old ones were done...

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Apparently they're at Mirror Lake, in Yosemite. Probably there was a photographer there who'd do shots, sorta like the guys at the beach when I was a kid who'd take pix and then come back with them in a little slide-viewer keychain thing. Yeah, a lot of these old ones were printed just for the people in them (or whose farm was in them, or w/e).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_photo_postcard

http://www.metropostcard.com/guiderealphoto.html

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/postcards/real-photo

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Ah, that explains everything!