The Erich Sonntag Postcard Collection

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Feldkirch, Vorarlberg
A lovely, well-kept mediaeval town in western Austria, incl. a cool castle, the Schattenburg, and several other wonderful sights
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Picture Postcard Workshop: Talks by A. Pavlenko, K. Andresen, S. Sander-Faes
Courtesy of Andrea Gáldy and Collecting Central Europe, here are the recorded talks from 1 July 2025
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Old Vienna (Before WW2)
To compare the images of war-damage, what better way would there be than to look at some pre-1939 picture postcards of my hometown?
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Vienna, Spring 1945
As the guns fell silent, most Central European cities had turned to barely recognisable heaps of rubble, which renders their renaissance thereafter a…
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June 2025

Picture Postcard Workshop, 1 July 2025
Courtesy of Andrea Gáldy and Collecting Central Europe, I'd like to invite you all to an online workshop about--vintage postcards, of course
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Dr. Ernst Jürgensen & Irma Chotek
A first glimpse at the 52 postcards exchanged between husband and wife, sent between 1918 and the Second World War
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Budapest Before WW2
A few more images from that "other" Danube metropolis
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Budapest Before the Great War
A few picture postcards from the World Of Yesterday, including some of the oldest specimens I've yet found in Erich Sonntag's collection
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Picture Postcard Workshop, 1 July 2025
Courtesy of Andrea Gáldy and Collecting Central Europe, I'd like to invite you all to an online workshop about--vintage postcards, of course
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Zadar, Croatia, in the 1970s
From my dissertation-turned-first book on the city in the 16th century to the present (and back again)
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May 2025

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