This is the new location of the page previously located at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lcseiler/pcs.htm. Please pardon me if you run into invalid links. Feel free to let me know. Email address found at the bottom of the page.

My Postcard Gallery

• My award-winning Postcard Tour of Houston, Texas. See historical Houston through the use of graphics files of postcards from about 1900 through 1950. Updated 7 August 2001: Buffalo Bayou section, and real photo card of 1912 Great Houston Fire.

Postcard Collecting Groups

• Postcard Listserv. Read the postcard collecting discussion group/electronic mailing list. The newsgroup no longer exists as it once did. Please follow this link to instructions on how to subscribe via email. The mailing "list" is a means for people to discussion collecting and find postcard swapping friends on the Internet. It is distributed via email, and posts go to all the members. This group is one of the oldest postcard discussion groups on the net. Many members have postcard pages below.
• Postcard FAQ. Read the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions and Answers) for the discussion group/electronic mailing list (above). Includes tips on postcard collecting as well as tips on the postcard collecting group. The FAQ is now permanently at my site. Follow this link to the Postcard Group FAQ.
• eJournal of Recipe Postcards. Here is the archive of Alicia's electronic journal of recipe postcards. If you're missing an old issue, or simply interested in reading about recipe postcards, check out this area.
• Freecard Group. Several collectors have formed a separate group for trading Freecards or Rack Cards. This group can be joined by sending an email to freecard-subscribe@yahoogroups.com, or if you are a Yahoo! or Yahoo! Groups member, you may find it easier to subscribe via the web page at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freecard/.
• Postcard Pals SIG. Some readers may be interested in the Special Interest Group that encourages postcard hobby. The newsletter has 5-6 issues per year.

Other Postcard Collectors

• George Ivanov's collecting interests are now online for you to check out. He collects 4x6" modern cards of major U.S. cities. He doesn't want duplicate cards so be sure and take a peek at his checklist. Email me if you have questions.
• Lars-Olov Stenborg's Old Postcard Exhibition features cards from around the world. This site has been around for years, and along with Caroylyn Daily O'Connor's (see below) is among the oldest postcard site I know that are still up and running. Lars-Olov Stenborg collects Swedish cards from 1890-1960.
• Carolyn Daily O'Connor has a display of vintage Paris postcards.
• Susan Frost has several pages of interest. They are among the best-researched postcard pages on the net.
  • The Postcards of Luis Marquez
  • The Early Maximum Cards of Mexico
  • Identifying the Postcards of Hugo Brehme
• James Lileks' American Postcards Project page features several postcard collections:
  • New York City postcards (link updated)
  • Motel postcards
  • Diner & Café postcards
• Larry Meyer's Behind the Green Door Page has links to several collections, including (but not limited to):
  • Airliner Album
  • Echoes of Erie
• The Rotopex page for Rotograph cards has moved to www.rotograph.org.
• Glenda More's Mainzer Cat Postcards page is part of her Cat Stuff page. Over 200 Mainzer cat cards from the 1940s-1960s.
• Jaap Verbaas' site features book-related postcards. And displays several examples of books, books in art, and libraries.
• Roger Hare's site features ocean liner postcards. Now back online
• Brian K Martsolf has a site featuring Walt Disney World postcards.
• Rudy Muller has a site featuring lighthouse cards.
• Patrick Enfinger has a collection of featuring collectibles and postcards of Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain NC (aka Blue Ridge Association).

Postcard and Ephemera Dealers

Please see note at bottom of the page.

• International Federation of Postcard Dealers' listing of Postcard Dealers around the world. If you're a dealer and want to be listed, join this!
• PTA. This is a link to the Postcard Traders Association, a British association of postcard dealers, many of whom are collectors as well (isn't that always the case, heheheh).
• Postcard Post. The Postcard Post specializes in airline postcards. Those seeking to sell, trade, or buy rare airlines cards are urged to take a look.
• Ron Playle had periodic postcard auctions conducted by email and advertised in Barr's. Now he's full-time on the web. Prices are generally generally better than eBay™, but have less selection.

Miscellanea

• New York Public Library. The New York Public Library Mid-Manhattan Branch has a collection of historical New York City Postcards, some of which are available online.
• University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. The UTMB Library features a collection of medicine-related postcards as part of the Blocker Medical History Collection. [Site appears to be down--Let's hope its temporary.]
• University of Florida, George A. Smathers Library. The University of Florida library features a Digital Collection which includes several postcards.
• University of Houston Library Department of Special Collections and Archives. U of H Libraries presents the Historic Texas Postcards from the George Fuermann City of Houston Collection (link updated).
• ePodunk: The Power of Place Over the years, tons of folks have sent me links for "e-postcards." I have refused to list them. They've always been junky scanned photographs or drawings used for advertising, as bad as the electronic greeting card sites. They have had little to do with real postcards, which this site is about. Well, ePodunk has a site that's finally done it right. They have thousands of vintage postcards from around the US that can be sent via email as greeting cards.
• dotpattern has a collection of tacky, chrome, and even some vintage cards online. They also appear to sell postcarding supplies and have eBay card auctions (although they were not currently active when I visited the page).

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Note: I am no longer adding dealers to this page. I'm sorry, but it just takes too much time to maintain, and I already have dozens of requests that have come in before yours. This list was put here long before Yahoo and other search engines had many postcard dealers listed. Links pages such as this were vital to the way the web worked. Now, with search engines and the like, these types of pages are no longer so necessary. It takes too long for me to deal with the dozens of requests from collectors and dealers I receive every month. This list is considerably smaller than it once was since many dealers have gone out of business and I have removed them, or they've moved their site without leaving any indication of where it went. I will not be adding more links to this or other sections on this page except perhaps for dealers who have been particularly instrumental in obtaining cards for me personally. Please do not ask to be added. I don't care if you have 200,000 cards in stock and are the largest dealer in Romania. This policy has been in place since October 1999. I have tried to make it more clear on 17 August 2001.

Updated 28 September 2008
Minor editing 1 March 2009.