Postcards from the LedgeCleveland seen through 100+ years of views and voices
Years ago, I gifted my wife a set of vintage Cleveland postcards that represented all of the places around town that we had been together. We put it up on the ledge in our family room, and, over the years, it's grown. Some added for location, some for topic, some just because they were fun.
Many of them are used, and, even though many of them are well over 100-years-old, the thoughts and concepts are often no different than those seen on today's limited-message-space forms of communication (a.k.a. "the socials medias").
Often as cryptic as they are beautiful scenes of the past, take a unique walk with us through the social media of yesterday (that you can still use today), Postcards from the Ledge!
Archivist, Jon Thompson
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Postcards to and from Clevelanders in the 1900s-1910s. Lots of turkey, and a couple cryptic messages, but holiday spirit nonetheless.
Today we're looking at postcards that almost fit the design memo, but missed for one reason or another.
In this installment, we'll poke at the era of multiple photo "souvenir"-style Cleveland postcards released between 1950 and the mid-1980s.
This week, we focus on the classic "Greetings from Cleveland Ohio" style of postcard -- the ones most folks think of -- and how they vary over the decades.
Welcome to the inaugural installment of Postcards From the Ledge: A look at what people were thinking / seeing around Halloween in the social media of the past—vintage postcards from Cleveland!
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