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o 1906: Kodak offers to print the postcards for the photographer, so you didn’t have to have a dark room.
1907-1915: Backs of postcards divided, most color postcards printed in Germany, high quality lithographic process cards
o 1907: Inscriptions first allowed on the back of postcards (until then, only allowed to write on the front), and so postcard printers printed a dividing line on the back of the postcard.
1915-1930: Trade with Germany stopped and poorer quality cards printed in US and England with white borders to save ink. Popular age of real photo postcards. Some hand-tinted.
1930-1945: New textured linen postcards came out, printed with bright colors 1939: New color “photochrome” or “chrome” postcards introduced, the process still used today for color postcards