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Keep in touch with CRP&A postcards

In conjunction with an article in Railroad Heritage 2021:1 by Den Adler, “The Rise and Fall of the Railroad Postcard,” the Center has published a set of six postcards with images from our collections. In this time of limited contact and so much electronic communication, we want to encourage physical, tangible correspondence. Our postcards are printed on 130-pound linen cover stock, and they feature the work of photographers Katherine Botkin, William Botkin, Victor Hand, Ronald Hill, Thomas McIlwraith, and James Shaughnessy.

$5 per set of six cards, which includes domestic postage

←Wallace W. Abbey: A Life in Railroad Photography, presented by Kevin Keefe and Scott Lothes
The Iron Road to the Deep North: Japanese Railways of Hokkaido, Then and Now→

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Center for Railroad Photography & Art

Our mission: to preserve and present significant images of railroading.

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Madison, WI 53711-2059

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Railfans ride a Mid-Continent Railway Museum caboose in North Freedom, Wisconsin, in May 1963. Photograph by John Gruber, Gruber-05-021-0003

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