Akron Postcard Club

Enter the magical world of postcards. Whether you want to look at postcard images, read old messages, talk collections, or make your own postcards, the Akron Postcard Club is the place for you. We use the David P. Campbell Postcard Collection to explore the history of the postcard and to inspire our monthly meeting themes. We tend to alternate between collections exploration and postcard creation, check the theme descriptions for details.

Meetings are open to anyone curious about postcards – students and community members alike. We meet the last Wednesday* of every month from 6:00pm to 7:00pm ET in the Postcard Library at the Institute for Human Science and Culture at the Cummings Center (located on the 4th floor).

The club is free to attend, and new members receive an Akron Postcard Club membership card.

*due to the winter holidays, we do not meet at our regular time in November and December. Instead, we host a special Saturday afternoon meet-up during these months.

Next meeting:
Wednesday, March 29 from 6:00pm - 7:00pm ET

Theme: Olive Mudge, A Life in Postcards
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Join the Akron Postcard Club as we host guest speaker Sam Hurst to learn about the antiquarian albums of the David P. Campbell Postcard Collection! We will take a deep dive into albums full of postcards that once belonged to Olive Mudge. The albums provide a glimpse inside the life of a postcard collector in the early decades of the 1900s through the messages and postcards she received from friends and family.

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