Tarya in Helsinki found this card for me in the Post Museum, which houses not only collections of postcards, but other mail-related ephemera, and even mail processing equipment from days past. This card is a reproduction of a postcard from 1910 and, not only does it look old, it feels old, and it’s even the right size — smaller than the postcards of today.

Certainly this photograph is posed, and not for a family portrait; it has an overabundance of cleavage for portraits of this time period. But it’s a wonderful image of days gone by, when letters were much more commonplace. I write letters myself, so feel free to write me a letter of your own. But first, take a look at the other wonderful Wednesday postcards at Postcard Perfect.

This Finnish postcard featuring art by Albert Edelfelt is a far cry from the last Edelfelt postcard I received, and is a great improvement.   Nina sent me this card from Helsinki, saying “I chose this card for you because I think it was suitable for your preferences.”  Most suitable indeed.

The piece here is entitled “On the beach, the Temple of Venus in the background” and was produced in 1903.  Edelfelt died in 1905 at the age of 51; clearly his appreciation of the female form never waned.