Bronx Views: 24 Ready-to-Mail Vintage Post Cards

In our research at The Bronx County Historical Society, extensive use is made of post cards. Coupled with oral histories or other first-hand accounts, the image on a post card can provide an excellent resource for researchers. In the post card heyday, numbered sets of cards were created that specialized in Bronx scenes of schools, streets, parks, and even Bronx zoo animals. The views contained in this collection were chosen to illustrate another time and place in the “Borough of Universities and Parks.” They are offered as examples of how visuals assist in interpreting the process of historical change that The Bronx witnessed during the twentieth century.