Interactive map containing old postcards from around the world, is available here. Localities appea

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It became viral on the internet to post vintage postcards with images of various cities. There are already a lot of websites that are dedicated to this subject in specific terms is called cartofilie. According DEX cartofilia philately is the branch that deals with collecting, studying and exposure Postcard. It is true that not everyone who distributes internet images are postcards and collectors. For most, it's just an activity that has a deep emotional substratum, nostalgic. Who does not want to know how to show his city a few decades ago, maybe a little more than a hundred? Recently, I discovered a real "gold mine" in old postcards. It is a database available online, where to find hundreds of thousands of postcards are in the collections of museums.
The database in question is called Arcanum Postcard and is available ups store at www.postcard.arcanum.hu. Do not panic, there is a English version available here. More than 200,000 postcards that can be accessed through an interactive map posted by the combined effort of institutions like Arcanum ups store Adatbazis Kf t - specializes in digitizing print documents, Nemzeti Kulturális Ala p (National Cultural Foundation) and Országos Széchényi Könyvtár (National Library Information Science).
Interactive map containing old postcards from around the world, is available here. Localities appear as illustrations on postcards are represented on the map by circles of different sizes, depending on the number of postcards available. The map can be used as any Google map, meaning that it may increase or decrease as the case may be "pulled" where we want. Trying to get close to Transylvania Romania in general and in particular we can see that these circles are growing more frequent, a sign that those places are well represented. Interactive Map of South - East Since most postcards are from the mid nineteenth century and early twentieth century and that the sources ups store are Hungarian, is somewhat understandable that Transylvania is well represented. Large cities such as Cluj-Napoca, Oradea, Timisoara, Targu-Mures, Baia-Mare and Sibiu have hundreds of postcards. Anything less is in Moldova and the Romanian Country. Seeking localities county, ups store and they are also well represented. The four cities and most postcards: Zalau (152 cards), Şimleu Silvaniei (81 cards) Cehu Silvaniei (22 cards) and Jibou (60 cards). Database ups store does not lack common higher like Ileanda, Surduc, Hida, Krasna, Nuşfalău or less as Sărmăşag, Zalnoc, Stan, Peter, smiling, baby, Gârbou, Tihau etc.
Tihau 1917 Sărmăşag 1943 Zalau is best represented. There are over 150 cards, most made famous printing Seres Samu, but by Photo Elite Peter or Fotofilm Kolosva r. Most of these cards are in the Museum of Szerencs Zempléni. As an aside, I did not know that the city Szerencs near Miskolc (Hungary) there is a museum postcards. Zalau 1909 Zalau Zalau 1911 1940 vintage view images on postcards, basically ups store witnessed a visual history of the city. See buildings and monuments that no longer exist today, places that have either changed names or have undergone substantial changes. It's a history of architecture, culture and civilization. It shows a city that today hardly find him. Beyond sentimental value, there is an intrinsic value given the age of the object, in our case of the postcard. The oldest is dated 1889 are digitized ups store Interestingly, both sides of the postcard. And containing artwork, perhaps the most valuable in terms of aesthetics, the visual and the wording which was passed by the sender. ups store We deal with postcards that circulated at the time, was franked with stamps that also illustrates zeitgeist. Postage stamps are Hungarian and Romanian. Who understands Hungarian (which is in general ups store language ups store of the written text) believe that reading them is like you look in a journal: see the characters, places, facts and events. Even the