It started for Peter Keyes the same way it does for many postcard collectors: with just one._ The Newbury resident, a retired high school history and economics teacher from Massachusetts, was ...

Fifteen years ago Bill Schaal, a friend of John Lawson, gave him his first postcard. The card was of an old scene from Hampton, where Lawson grew up. At that moment, Lawson fell in love with ...

Joe Vella of Decatur has spent a lifetime collecting postcards and has perhaps the world’s most extensive collection. His collection of more than 52,000 postcards dwarfs the Guinness World Record ...

When Karen Martin started collecting postcards, her mother was surprised that anyone would consider these cards — which sold for a penny or two in their heyday — worth saving, much less studying and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dede Horan‘s avocation as a postcard collector started when she was about 10 years old, and heard something drop between the fireplace mantel and her bedroom ...

They were the Facebook, Twitter and email of the early 20th century. Today, old postcards provide a pictorial history of a city's landmarks. A Matheson Museum exhibition highlights a collection — ...

OAKLAND -- — Sheryl Oring sat on a folding chair on a downtown street corner, her fingers poised over the keyboard of her classic Rheinmetall typewriter. Sitting across from her, Maria Theren dictated ...

I was into deltiology long before I ever heard of the word. Actually, I was worried when someone I met called me a deltiologist several years ago. Little did I know that deltiology was the hobby of ...

Last week’s column mentioned postcards in passing. I love postcards and have mentioned them in various contexts several times over the years. My postcard collection is getting really big — several ...

Robert Drew has never met a postcard he didn't like. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Perhaps that's why he owns more than 250,000 postcards, believed to be one of the largest private ...