pictures that cannot be taken by the average traveler. my mother bought postcards also when she traveled with her brother (before marriage) and also when my family traveled. i have quite a large collection that i inherited from my mother and grandmother. my favorites are the christmas postcards sent to my uncles and aunts way back in the teens and twenties (aka the early twentieth century!) greeting cards were not as popular then. i have put a lot of the cards in an album so that both side are showing if there is writing on the back. it is just fascinating to look through these beautiful cards and see the 