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postcard

Card with space for a written message that can be sent through the mail without an envelope. The postcard's inventor was Emmanual Hermann, of Vienna, who in 1869 proposed a ‘postal telegram’, sent at a lower fee than a normal letter with an envelope. The first picture postcard was produced in 1894.



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