Sentence examples for postcard eras from inspiring English sources

Know the general postcard eras.

When hotel guests reach the top of the spare entry staircase at the Ace Hotel in Seattle, they confront snow-flecked granite peaks rising above the reception desk like an oversize Airstream-era postcard of the nearby Cascade Mountains.

But these days the Rialto is crumbling, boarded up, with paint peeling, a fading postcard from an era of what's now become impractical grandeur.

But a decision in 1902 to allow messages to run on the back ushered in a golden era of postcard art and correspondence.

The global metal-theft epidemic conjures a Mad Max world of desperate people mining civilization's infrastructure — a postcard from a future era of commodity scarcity.

Views of soldiers surveying the bodies were sold as picture postcards of the era.

Half of them are enlarged copies of World War I-era postcards depicting landscapes devastated by trench warfare.

Another Los Angeles artist, Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, uses images from colonial-era postcards, made for European eyes, to make a point about the vulnerability of the body when seen through a racial lens.

They created hat ads in cursive (Danbury is the "Hat City," having produced a quarter of the nation's toppers a century ago) and pored over postcards from that era penned in script.

"The spotlight featured a series of postcards from the era of the collection, none of which depict war," said Suzana Lisanti, MIT home page coordinator who along with MIT administrators met displeased students Tuesday night.

Nemes shoots the city in bleached-out colours, a kind of sepia style, and Budapest is brought to life as if in one of the picture postcards of the era.