--- > Postcards, as Leonard’s project suggests, are not only souvenirs of place, but also—and today, mostly—souvenirs of time. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h3yb3c1jkp20s5fqeqt2wz08) --- > The nature of that time has shifted since the postcard’s invention. The history of the postcard charts a poignant trajectory of the 20th century: embodying the utopic and futuristic promises of its first decades, it transformed into a relic of a slower and seemingly more stable world of connection by its close. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h3yb4a6g9752k6jqmxye5kva) ---