I’m excited to share a new website dedicated to something I’ve always believed is an overlooked window into our past: vintage postcards. Much like my project celebrating the postcard history of Akron, Ohio, this new site turns its focus toward New Castle, Pennsylvania, a city with a rich industrial story and a beautifully varied visual past.
Postcards have always fascinated me. They’re such a simple thing; cardboard, ink, a brief message, but they carry a charm that modern communication rarely captures. They’re like text messages from another era, little moments people felt were worth sending, and glimpses into how communities wanted to be seen. Clean streets, proud storefronts, factory skylines, rivers, parks, and the everyday bustle of a place just going about its life. Everything carefully framed and colored to present the “polished past.”
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