historical Australian postcards

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Blame the Post Office
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In June 1906, 600 postcards were languishing in the Dead Letter Office of Sydney’s GPO.
These days, genealogists can gain access to digital collections of postcards that are happily accessible on databases like Australian Historical Postcards on ancestry.com.
See reference sources below.
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Ancestry.com. Australia Historical Postcards [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Some of this collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.

Original data: Mary Martin Postcards (www.MaryLMartin.com), Perryville, MD, USA.