For more than a century, travelers have been sending postcards home from wherever their wanderings took them. Most postcards today are beautiful, glossy photographic peeks at a place, but older versions have a special beauty all their own: sepia tones, hand tinted black & white, documentary-style "real photos," color-saturated "linens" and more, all offering us glimpses of the past.

We have gathered just a handful from our collection for you to see or send.

We invite you to take a look through a few of our albums and see if you can recognize any places or things. Click here to view these categories: Missions | Trees | Fruits  (more categories to come!)

You also can send a postcard to a pal.
It's free, with our compliments. Here's how: Click to select one of our postcards and click again to compose and send your message. Send as many as you like.
And if you are not in the California Countryside right this very minute, send
one to yourself to remind yourself to
come here soon!

[Please Note: We Respect Your Privacy: We do not harvest email addresses and will send no unsolicited mail to you or your recipient(s). So send as many as you like with no fear of spam.]