{"id":1871,"date":"2013-05-24T17:02:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T17:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2013-05-24T17:02:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T17:02:04","slug":"library-of-congress-digitizes-archive-of-early-20th-century-panoramic-postcards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2013\/05\/24\/library-of-congress-digitizes-archive-of-early-20th-century-panoramic-postcards\/","title":{"rendered":"Library of Congress Digitizes Archive of Early 20th Century Panoramic Postcards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2013\/05\/panoramicpostcards1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1872 aligncenter\" alt=\"panoramicpostcards1\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2013\/05\/panoramicpostcards1.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Last month, the Library of Congress finally finished\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/picturethis\/2013\/05\/taking-the-long-view-in-miniature\/\">a project<\/a>\u00a0they started all the way back in 2008: they finished digitizing an archive of 467 panoramic postcards from the early 1900\u2032s. All of these postcards are now available online for interested folks to peruse through, learn from and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Panoramic postcards like these first came onto the scene in the early 1900\u2032s to document everything from sweeping landscapes to towering skyscrapers. Measuring in at 3.5 x 10-inches, they were usually folded for more compact delivery, and many of them were delicate \u201creal photo\u201d postcards, which is why it took the Library of Congress so long to scan them in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Like any photography fad, even back then the technique was sometimes used just for the sake of using it. Capturing a beautiful landscape or a massive ocean liner in a panorama made sense \u2026 capturing a flock of seagulls eating fish on the beach may not have warranted a panorama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2013\/05\/14\/library-of-congress-digitizes-archive-of-rare-20th-century-panoramic-postcards\/#cB6pwbRfAW4geJmG.99\">http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2013\/05\/14\/library-of-congress-digitizes-archive-of-rare-20th-century-panoramic-postcards\/#cB6pwbRfAW4geJmG.99<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Most are in black and white, but there are a few color postcards thrown in as well. To browse the entire selection and see what places like Jersey City, Atlantic City and Brooklyn looked like in the early 1900\u2032s, click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/search\/?q=lot+14058&amp;co=cph&amp;st=gallery\">here<\/a>\u00a0to check out the entire archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Last month, the Library of Congress finally finished\u00a0a project\u00a0they started all the way back in 2008: they finished digitizing an archive of 467 panoramic postcards from the early 1900\u2032s. All of these postcards are now available online for interested folks to peruse through, learn from and enjoy. Panoramic postcards like these first came onto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archives-in-the-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}