<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Digital Initiatives department at the University of Idaho is pleased to announce the release of the <a href="http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/postcards/index.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Northwest Historical Postcards Collection</a>.<u></u><u></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><u></u> <u></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/postcards/index.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/<wbr>digital/postcards/index.html</a><u></u><u></u></div><div
class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><u></u> <u></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This digital collection of over 800 postcards comes from the historical photograph collections of the University of Idaho Library’s Special Collections & Archives. The postcards range in date from the 1890s to the 1980s and depict a great deal of the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada. They were given to the library by a wide variety of donors.<u></u><u></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><u></u> <u></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Users can scroll through the entire collection via the index page; hovering on an image will provide more
information, and, in many cases, a view of the postcard’s back as well. Users can also browse by <a href="http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/postcards/locations.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">location</a>, <a href="http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/postcards/subjects.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">subject</a>, and via a <a href="http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/postcards/map.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Google map</a>. The advanced search feature on the <a href="http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/postcards/table.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">table page</a> should also be useful for users looking for specific images</div></div><div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>