Postcards of a nation embracing a new democratic technology The ubiquity of photography and social media today makes it hard to imagine a time when it was not possible for ordinary people to take their own pictures and send them with short messages over long distances. But it was revolutionary when the Eastman Kodak Company in 1903 unveiled a new postcard camera that produced a postcardsize negative that could print directly onto a blank card. Suddenly almost anyone amateurs and entrepreneurial photographers alike could take a pictureof neighbors at home and at work local celebrations newsworthy disasters sightseeing tripsand turn it into a postcard.This book captures this moment in the history of communicationsfrom around 1900 to 1930through a generous selection of what came to be known as ampampquotreal photo postcardsampampquot from the extensive Leonard A.