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Postcard of the Day

Vintage postcards from everywhere

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Miss getting postcards in the mail? This TRMNL recipe brings a **historical postcard** to your screen every day, selected from public digital collections around the world. Explore vintage postcards showing cities, landscapes, buildings, people, streets, and everyday life from another time. The collection contains almost 18,000 real printed postcards from 115 countries, spanning more than a century of history from 1860 to 1975. Each card comes with the information available in its archive catalogue, including what it depicts, where it comes from, and when it was sent when that information is available. Choose postcards by region, historical era, or orientation, or leave the filters open and let the whole world arrive one postcard at a time. The result is a small daily window into places and everyday life from the past.

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Miss getting postcards in the mail? This recipe has you covered. A unique historical postcard from across the globe, each and every day -- and unlike your friends and family, it lets you choose where they come from.

The collection covers almost 18,000 real printed cards from public archives spanning 115 countries and the years 1860 to 1975. Each postcard arrives with whatever the catalogue knows: what it shows, where it‘s from, and when it was sent.

Sort by orientation, region or era -- or change nothing and take the whole world as it comes.

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Cards from the University of Graz (GrazMuseum Ansichtskarten) are licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 AT and are used with thanks; browse the collection at gams.uni-graz.at. Everything else is public domain or CC0, from the Library of Congress, the Rijksmuseum and Digital Commonwealth.