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postcard
thumb|Example of a court card, postmarked 1899, showing Robert Burns and his cottage and monument in [[Ayr]] alt=Postcard depicting people boarding a train at the Shawnee Depot in Colorado, late 1800s.|thumb|Postcard depicting people boarding a train at the Shawnee Depot in Colorado, late 1800s
postcrossing
Postcrossing is an online project for people to exchange postcards with other project members globally. The project's tag line is "send a postcard and receive a postcard back from a random person somewhere in the world!" The name Postcrossing is a union of the words postcard and crossing, and its origin "is loosely based on the Bookcrossing site".
greeting card
illustrated piece of card or high quality paper featuring an expression of friendship or other sentiment
Japanese New Year
January 1, a national holiday in Japan (the first day of the first month of the East Asian Lunar calendar prior to 1873)
deltiology
Deltiology (from Greek , , diminutive of , , "writing tablet, letter"; and , ) is the study and collection of postcards. The word originated in 1945 from the collaboration of Rendell Rhoades (1914–1976) of Ohio and colleagues at Ohio State University.
Photochrom
thumb|280px|1890s photochrom print of Neuschwanstein Castle, [[Bavaria, Germany]] Photochrom, Fotochrom, Photochrome or the Aäc process is a process of colorizing from a single black-and-white negative with subsequent photographic transfer onto lithographic printing plates. The process is a photographic variant of chromolithography (color lithography). Because no color information was preserved in the photographic process, the photographer would make detailed notes on the colors within the scene and use the notes to transfer the image through colored gels onto the printing plates.
Saucy Jacky postcard
message received in 1888, which claims to have been written by the serial killer now known as Jack the Ripper
Colnect
Colnect Collectors Club Community is a website containing wiki-like collectables catalogs. It allows collectors to manage their personal collection using these catalogs and automatically match their swap/wish-lists with those of other collectors. Colnect provides a marketplace dedicated to buying and selling collectibles. Colnect's phone cards catalog is the biggest in the world.
En L'An 2000
French drawing series on scientific progress about the year 2000
French postcard
form of erotic imagery
PostSecret
thumb|250px|Screenshot of PostSecret with an example postcard. PostSecret is an ongoing community mail art project, created by Frank Warren in 2004, in which people mail their secrets anonymously on a homemade postcard. Selected secrets are then posted on the PostSecret website, or used for PostSecret's books or museum exhibits.
Leonard Lauder
American billionaire, philanthropist, art collector
Emanuel Herrmann
Austrian national economist (1839-1902)
cigarette card
trading cards included in cigarette packaging
Easter postcard
greeting card for the Easter holiday
postal card
postal stationery with an imprinted stamp or indicium signifying the prepayment of postage
lynching postcard
postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching
advertising postcard
postcard used for advertising purposes
Penny Penates
penny Penates postcard used in a public postal system