It started for Peter Keyes the same way it does for many postcard collectors: with just one._ The Newbury resident, a retired high school history and economics teacher from Massachusetts, was ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dede Horan‘s avocation as a postcard collector started when she was about 10 years old, and heard something drop between the fireplace mantel and her bedroom ...

A snapshot in time can tell a long-forgotten story of bygone days. Old photos and postcards are an irreplaceable asset to historical societies, archivists and genealogists. For Mark Jacobson, a ...

Most travelers pick up souvenirs without much thought. A cheap postcard, maybe some airline swag, or a trinket from a gift shop.These items usually end up in a drawer or tossed in the trash. Yet some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FlamingPumpkin / E+ via Getty Images Many postcards sold for a few cents (or even a penny) when they were first made, but they’re ...

Dan Dosmann carefully turns the pages, taking a virtual tour of area history. There's a circa 1903 image of the castle-like South Bend Public Library, an early view of the Main Building at the ...

I was into deltiology long before I ever heard of the word. Actually, I was worried when someone I met called me a deltiologist several years ago. Little did I know that deltiology was the hobby of ...

Joseph Cooper admits he has “a bad addiction” to the more picturesque history of San Antonio. That would explain the more than 10,000 vintage postcards he’s been collecting for decades. For half his ...

The postcard Valentine in my photo this week portrays a long-distance romance in the very early 1900s era. There were five little silk bows in the colors of pink, white, red, blue and yellow glued ...

Some people have been cleaning their garages and attics, since the world slowed down as the virus spread. Colin Sheehan, the Yale golf coach and a golfing polymath, has been expanding his virtual ...