In 1903, the mania for postcards kicked up into a frenzy with the Eastman Kodak Company's creation of the postcard camera. Photographers could go out and take a picture that printed directly onto a postcard back. Catch it at the Museum of Fine Arts:
Real Photo Postcards: Pictures from a Changing Nation
Weiss explained that a worldwide postcard fascination was well underway at the turn of the 20th century. But in 1903, that fascination kicked up into a frenzy with the Eastman Kodak Company’s creation of the postcard camera. Photographers could go out and take a picture that printed directly onto a postcard back with no need for a background in photo editing or enlarging.
Various scenes of downtown city centers sit side by side with sections on work, leisure, and travel. Places like Indiana and Kansas take center stage as the show focuses on medium-sized towns in middle America. Those were the places where big publishers did not control the postcard market, and independent photographers could try their hand.People are dressed in their Sunday best in one section, in another in work clothes with their tools.
A postcard featuring students in Wittenberg, Wisconsin was published by the Northern Photo Company in 1919.
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