Following all the rules, I assembled a frame containing 20 100-year-old postcards and added descriptions of what happened to the buildings pictured on them. “It was nothing fancy.

Sending postcards to loved ones used to be standard procedure for travelers back when travel was glamorous and communications were slow. While some travelers still keep this tradition alive, many h… ...

Postcards, she tells me, have the potential to give the viewer a brief education on history, or any other subject. They work as aesthetic objects, but they’re also their own didactics.