There's a lesson there. A week ahead of Labor Day, a postcard from Lydia in Delaware arrived. Delaware, the first state, was, in fact, the 50th state to arrive for the 2024 Postcard Project.

Luc Sante's book, Folk Photography: The American Real-Photo Postcard, 1905–1930' published by Verse Chorus Press, includes some 120 examples of the medium.

UNK geography professor Jason Combs, left, and his son Tate, a junior at UNK, worked together on a research project studying Nebraska’s “exaggeration postcards.” Their project is featured in ...

For example, the postcard urges voters to request a mail-in ballot “at least 15 days before Election Day.” But in some states, voters are sent ballots without having to request them.

UNK geography professor Jason Combs, left, and his son Tate, a junior at UNK, worked together on a research project studying Nebraska’s “exaggeration postcards.” Their project is featured in ...

For example, Sister Gemma, who has lived at St. Mary of the Pines in Chatawa, Mississippi, now at St. Anthony’s Gardens in Covington, went through her archives and gathered two dozen postcards ...