INSTRUCTIONS: Click for the color tinted version.

"Wide dash'd the waves in undulation vast."  A rough sea off the north pier, Blackpool.  Date uncertain.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the better print.

You've heard that anything can be erotic, and here's how someone saw the Panama Canal as a lesbian kiss.  From 1923.

Here's a prediction of downloading information in the year 2000.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to change the sky and add a sightseer atop the elevator.

Here's a precursor to "the golden eyes of the mesmerized alligator" (George Newtown, in Louisiana in Words).  The postcard caption reads: "Exhibition of mesmerizing an alligator, California Alligator Farm, Los Angeles."  Date uncertain.

"Welcome to Mars (Pennsylvania)."

"Chinese fortune teller, Chinatown, San Francisco, Calif."  From the mid-1940s.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to paint the postcard.

Humpty Dumpty didn't just sit on a wall, as we see in this Croatian postcard, date uncertain.

Kellogg, Idaho, "the town which was discovered by a jackass -- and which is inhabited by its descendants."

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to turn on the night.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to postmark this card in the mirror world.
From 1943.

"Only a moment to spare."  From 1908.

By Einar Nerman, date uncertain.

Here's a prediction of spy drones in the year 2000.

Who says fortune tellers give vague predictions?  These postcards from the mid-1930s even show a photo of one's future spouse, and they're brutally honest (down to the monkey child one might be destined to raise).

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to change the ink.