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Unknown photographer but this was published in  Freetown, Sierra Leone, dated: 5-10-1924

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Gloucester Street, showing the old post office, from 1900 by Lisk-Carew Brothers

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1933 Freetown postcard by Lisk-Carew Brothers

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A postcard of Freetown published by Levy Fils et Cie, Paris.

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Colonial Postcards From Dark Times

Historical postcards documenting Africa and it’s people during the intense time of European Colonialism

“postcards had played a role in popularizing the venture of European colonial rule and served to reinforcing the stereotype the European had of Africa.”

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The African Section of the Library of Congress

What a collection! ---”Throughout the period of European colonialism in Africa, #postcards played an important role in popularizing the venture of European colonial rule and in perpetuating long-held stereotypes of the vast African continent” 

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The Arab Image Foundation (AIF) works at the intersection of photographic, artistic, research, and preservation practices.

I love AIF’s way of showcasing their postcards and preservation practices

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Opinion | You Should Start Writing Letters

Zoom calls and texts are emotionally draining, but exchanging handwritten notes can be sublime.

Perhaps it’s simply a break from a screen or just another way to mark the passage of time when the world seems to be on an indefinite hold.

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Little East Street 

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Soon to be postcard <3

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'A letter tells someone they still matter': the sudden, surprising return of the pen pal

In the pandemic, many have rediscovered the sheer pleasure of writing to strangers, with new schemes spreading hope and connection around the world

My letter-loving and postcard-making made it into the @guardian (March 23 2021!): “For Najmeh Modarres, 37, letter-writing was an act of memorialisation prompted by an earlier health crisis....” 

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A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

Emily Dickenson

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an object of hope 

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