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The postcard phenomenon - Yale University
Communications from the Field: Missionary postcards from Africa The postcard phenomenon The postcard Era was a distinct historical phenomenon occurring in the years between the Spanish-American War and the First World War. postcard collecting was widespread in Europe by the turn of the century, and the fad had caught on fully in the United States by 1905. At its height, postcard collecting was the subject of considerable satiric commentary, including the following by John Walker Harrington, published in American Magazine in March 1906: Postal carditis and allied collecting manias are working havoc among the inhabitants of the United States. The germs of these maladies, brought to this country in the baggage of tourists and immigrants, escaped quarantine regulations, and were propagated with amazing There is now no hamlet so remote which has not succumbed to the ravages of the microbe postale Unless such manifestations are checked, millions of persons of now normal lives a
Communications from the Field: Missionary Postcards from Africa . The postcard phenomenon . The “Postcard Era” was a distinct historical phenomenon occurring in the years between the
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