It was not the sort of beauty that would make her into a subject for photographic postcards, or cause artists to beg her to pose for them.

A year later, at a flea market, she found photographic postcards with writing across the front (early postcards devoted the reverse side to the recipient's address).

But it has become the popular term nowadays to distinguish photographic postcards from commercially printed, mass-produced postcards of the same era.

Gallery of photographic postcards from Alterocca-Terni of the first production of Zazà in 1900.

There is a complete collection of panoramic photographic postcards that show The Shedd Aquarium and more.

Early Civil Rights activist Ida B. Wells made a photographic postcard showing an 1891 lynching in Clanton.

He did commercial work for cane and pineapple plantations, and provided tourists arriving on ocean liners with mementos, mostly photographic postcards and bound books of photographs.

It's not because purely photographic postcards didn't exist.

Items in demand by travellers were paintings evoking memories of the place, playing the role that photographic postcards now fill.

The basic procedure is to glue photographic postcards to panels or sheets of paper and then, by painterly means, extend the photographic imagery out onto the surrounding ground.