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It's been nearly 150 years since the postcard first came on the scene. The great-grandparent to tweets, profiles, feeds and other social media, postcards were once the most efficient and cheapest form of correspondence for decades and, though technology played a part in their diminished popularity, one man is making sure his collection of postcards leaves a mark on our world.⁠ ⁠ Sitting just off the main street through Myerstown, Pa., a town of little more than 3,000 residents, Donald Brown has spent the majority of his nine decades assembling a collection of hundreds of thousands of postcards. His passion for them was discovered on a summer day in 1943 when Brown, 11 years old at the time, was combing through his recently deceased grandmother's things, alongside his aunt and mother.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in our bio for more. ⁠ ⁠ (Images: @evelynfreja • Evelyn Freja)
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Jan 10
6.9K
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