Quite a few years ago, a friend gave me the postcard album shown above. Over the years, I have accumulated thirty-two real vintage postcards and trade cards which is exactly enough to completely fill the album. I found all of them at antique malls a few at a time. I thought I would share them here and feel free to use them in your graphics projects.
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I haven't done any major editing to these scans other than to crop them with the exception of the lacy one below with a hand holding a dove. I cut out the holes in the lace so that you can place the card image on any background that you like. I added a drop shadow to one and I'm also posting one without a shadow in case you want to add your own.
Below you can see how the "Hand with Dove" postcard would look when pasted onto a floral background.
The three cards below are trade cards which have advertising on the back. These are the cards that started my collection.
Below is the rest of my postcard collection.
