Need a postcard fix? Well, this may help: We've compiled a few auction results from LiveAuctioneers.com on postcard auctions.

Hawaii became a unique tourist attraction early in the 20th century just as postcards were becoming firmly established as a means of colorful promotion and communication.

Do you think your job is tough? These postcards show the world's worst jobs through the ages.

What does a photographer do when times are tough and competition is stiff? Those who survive use their imaginations and offer a little something extra. This is certainly what professionals did during the postcard craze of the early 1900s.

Images from disasters and other major events are sent around the world so quickly today that it’s easy to forget the limitations of news coverage before the information highway was built.

Despair settled in the grimy creases of a face made old through wear. His lungs sucked heavy dust with every breath, his bones deformed from repetitive labor. His hands are cut, and often bleed from handling thousands of stone shards. The boy is 8 years old and for whatever reason he has been sold to the “company store” to live and probably die in a coal mine.

Whether the form was stories, post cards, joke books and songs, movies, serious literature and poems or just the 15 seconds of fame, the Model T was constantly talked about, pictured or portrayed.

Our local super-store has one sad rack of postcards with little to tempt even the most avid collector. A hundred years ago the situation was vastly different. Almost every topic under the sun was depicted on postcards, but none appealed to the general buyer more than adorable children.

IOLA, Wis.—Sponsored by Fan Carver’s World, the Antique Trader May Treasure Hunt Sweepstakes is celebrating the arrival of spring by giving away an original fan-carved bird, representing the dove of peace