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Indianapolis In Vintage Postcards (IN) (Postcard History Series)

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I bought this book for a gift at Christmas for my husband. Both he and I collect postcards of Indiana. While there is no denying the postcards are great, the author unfortunately did not do his research and put together a book of half baked answers.

The author admits when he took on the project, he thought it was going to take a lot of time but due to a postcard club in Indy, he was able to cut that time down, and apparently cut the time he should have used for researching the location and if the places still exist.

Additionally, as an academic researcher, I am horrified by the lack of documentation of where the information came from. THere is a list in the back of the book, but it doesnt say on each page where the postcards came from or where the info about the location in the card came from. That is just inexcuseable.

If you are just looking for pretty cards of Indianapolis gone by, this is a good book. If you want more substance behind where it was, if it still exists, etc-- look elsewhere.