We retrace the different roles that picture postcards have essayed throughout the twentieth century
When 24-year-old writer Helen MacGregor received a Christmas greeting in the form of a postcard, she was amazed to see that it was a picture of the town she grew up in. And she was in it! The postcard showed her as a three-year-old with her mother in the market town of Otley, West Yorkshire in England. This image was captured on camera and put on a postcard — and had found its way to her after two decades.
(This story appears in the 16 April, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)