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

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1933 Freetown postcard by Lisk-Carew Brothers

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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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Little East Street 

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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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Collective Observations: Karen Cunningham

Join us online for the premiere of Karen Cunningham's new film 'Mean Time'.

“Postcards are of particular interest to Karen because their status as ‘minor’ photography means they can create unofficial archives of the sites and sights represented. During their ‘Golden Age’, the popularity of ‘Real Photographic Post Cards’ facilitated armchair travel for the working classes who wouldn’t have access to a camera or the means to visit the places depicted. In Mean Time, postcard views are deliberately suppressed and distorted to question the assumed familiarity of a landmark.”