How Linen Postcards Transformed the Depression Era Into a Hyperreal Dreamland

For people who did not live in the United States during the 1930s and ’40s, the most familiar depictions of those decades come from two notoriously unreliable sources. First, there are the movies, in which Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and a scattering of Marx Brothers sing, dance, solve who-done-its, and make us laugh until our sides ache. Despite the inherent artificiality of Hollywood motion pictures of that era...
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