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 From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication.
Many of the postcards produced during this time can today be considered works of art.
Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street scenes, documenting local landmarks and assembling crowds of local children only too happy to pose for a picture.
The images, printed as postcards and sold in general stores across the United States, survive as telling reminders of an important era in America’s history.
Northeast Georgia in Vintage Postcards, a new, pictorial history of northeast Georgia, showcases more than 200 of the best vintage postcards available.
The book contains postcards collected and interpreted by Gary L. Doster, education program specialist in the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study of the College of Veterinary Medicine. The images in Northeast Georgia in Vintage Postcards bring an important period of the area’s history to life for visitors and members of the younger generation.
The book is the sixth in the postcard history series by Doster, whose From Abbeville to Zebulon: Early Post Card Views of Georgia had been reissued in soft cover by the University of Georgia Press.
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