postcards Archives - Maureen Taylor https://maureentaylor.com/category/postcards/ The Photo Detective Tue, 24 May 2022 13:00:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://maureentaylor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-site-icon-32x32.png postcards Archives - Maureen Taylor https://maureentaylor.com/category/postcards/ 32 32 99869351 Episode 141: Postal History Stories of Selling and Collecting with Jim Mehrer https://maureentaylor.com/episode-141-postal-history-stories-of-selling-and-collecting/ Sun, 15 Aug 2021 04:00:00 +0000 https://maureentaylor.com/?p=69059 From stamps to envelopes and postcards, my guest’s collecting passions expanded when he bought a few cards at a sale and became fascinated by the postmarks (and messages). He’s an expert on postmarks and using them as a photo clue. We chat about the golden age of postcard printing and the bits of history a […]

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From stamps to envelopes and postcards, my guest’s collecting passions expanded when he bought a few cards at a sale and became fascinated by the postmarks (and messages). He’s an expert on postmarks and using them as a photo clue. We chat about the golden age of postcard printing and the bits of history a postcard can convey including a link to President Garfield’s assassination. Jim Mehrer tells some great stories relating to postcards–why they were sent and why we should definitely read the backs of old cards. I know he’s inspired me to take a second look at the ones in my collection.

Episode 139: Collecting Postcards for a Half-Century with Mark Routh

Episode 104: Clues in Group Portraits and Albums

About My Guest:

Jim Mehrer is an Illinois native and lifelong resident. After graduating from Augustana College in Rock Island, he spent several years managing independent retail stores. 

In 1993, Jim combined his business management experience with his hobby interests and established Jim Mehrer’s Postal History. Since then, he has offered hundreds of thousands of items to collectors of postal history and postcards in his mail bid sales. Also, Jim offers related storage supplies and reference literature, including several titles that he has compiled and published. 
Information about Jim’s business and the products he offers is on his websites at www.postal-history.com and www.deltiology.com.

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada.  She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.com

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In today’s world, those of us with mobile devices communicate by texting. For our turn of the twentieth-century ancestors, it was through the mail. Imagine getting multiple mail deliveries a day and the possibilities of that communication.  Postcards were a quick way of touching base with friends and family. Businesses used cards to advertise and so did realtors. Real photo postcards are my favorite, but if you think they were unique, my guest clarifies that.  My guest started writing postcards as a child and never stopped. He receives dozens of them in the mail every day.  

Episode 103: Organize, Preserve and Share with Collectionaire.com

Episode 98: Collect Photo Stories with StoryGlory.com

About My Guest:

Frank Roche is the host of The Postcardist Podcast. Over the past three years and 110 episodes, he’s interviewed leading collectors, designers, writers, and authors about their postcard passion. A former journalist and executive communication consultant, Frank has been writing postcards since he was five. Frank is the proud owner of the world’s largest Bigfoot postcard collection.

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London, and Canada.  She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website, and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.com

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]]> 69057 Episode 139: Collecting Postcards for a Half Century with Mark Routh https://maureentaylor.com/episode-139-collecting-postcards-with-mark-routh/ Sun, 01 Aug 2021 04:00:00 +0000 https://maureentaylor.com/?p=69051 It’s time for another themed month. This time it’s postcards.  Three guests this month share stories about their personal connections with these mailable images. In this episode, English collector Mark Routh chats about his collection which spans 1869 to the present. He has some museum-quality gems. Did you know that dirigibles mailed items for their […]

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It’s time for another themed month. This time it’s postcards.  Three guests this month share stories about their personal connections with these mailable images. In this episode, English collector Mark Routh chats about his collection which spans 1869 to the present. He has some museum-quality gems. Did you know that dirigibles mailed items for their passengers?  Neither did I.  You won’t believe how many postcards he’s accumulated in his lifetime.  It all began with a single card that his father gave him.  

Episode 116: America and the Tintype with Steven Kasher

Episode 108: Researching the Ships of Our Ancestors

About My Guest:

Mark Routh’s postcard collection began 50 years ago.  He’s a recently retired police officer.  He has a substantial collection from all periods of postcard production (1869 – 2021).

He  wrote  a regular postcard article for the international magazine Picture Postcard Monthly – 1992 to 2020 (the pandemic closed down the magazine)

He now writes a monthly article for the new international magazine Picture Postcard Collecting which started up in 2020 as a replacement for the previously mentioned magazine.

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London, and Canada.  She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website, and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles, and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.com

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