No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
Postcards of Southern Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2022
Extract
The postcard is one of the latest arrivals among the “collectables”. The urge to collect postage stamps has a longer history, because adhesives arrived so much earlier. The postal historian looks back even futher in time. But the postcard was not born until 1 October, 1869, and the picture postcard did not appear until the 1870s.
There was a world-wide craze for collecting postcards which began at the turn of the century and persisted until 1918. Then it came to an abrupt end, partly because of the doubling of postage on cards (from ½d to 1d for inland mail) and partly because the more general use of the telephone superseded the postcard as a medium for brief messages.
In recent years there has been a revival of interest in collecting picture postcards. However the emphasis has moved away from contemporary issues (though many enthusiasts do concentrate on the “moderns”).
- Type
- Articles
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © International African Institute 1987
References
Literature
Southern Africa Postcard Research Group Newsletter, Quarterly. Editor: Atkinson, A.K.W., 46 The Crofts, Castletown, Isle of Man.Google Scholar
Cape Postcard Society Minutes. Editor: Wengrowe, D., P O Box 363, Claremont, South Africa 7735.Google Scholar
A Johannesburg Album, Historical Postcards, Oscar I Norwich [Ad. Donker (Pty) Ltd., P O Box 41021, Craighall, South Africa 2024 (1986)]Google Scholar
The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, Pretorius, F. (Don Nelson, Heritage Series, 1985) [Thirty of the 150 illustrations are from postcards]Google Scholar
South Africa's Yesterdays, [The Reader's Digest Association South Africa (Pty.) Ltd., 139 Strand Street, Cape Town, South Africa 8001 (1981)] [Postcards were the source of many of the illustrations]Google Scholar