Vintage California Postcards
Today, the Golden State is famous for its awe-inspiring, redwood-filled national parks and its winding coastal highways dotted with bright orange California poppies. However, many of the state’s first postcards captured a different side of the landscape—a dog-eat-dog frontier where underpaid immigrants worked their fingers to the bone. As for the natural world, it was a force to be reckoned with, as seen in postcards following San Francisco’s...Continue Reading