Roger Fenton and the Crimean War
T.J. Brady introduces an early photographer at a Victorian front.
T.J. Brady introduces an early photographer at a Victorian front.
Picture postcards may seem a commonplace means of communication, but, when they first came into use, they caused a revolution in people’s writing habits. T.J. Brady writes how they led to the creation of a considerable industry and became the subject of a collecting craze almost unparallelled.