Lost & Found: Historic Boston in Postcards – Book Talk with Kathy Alpert

Postcard expert Kathy Alpert returns to the West End Museum to share her new book, Lost & Found: Historic Boston in Postcards, providing a new historic lens on the City of Boston. The volume features more than 200 hand-selected vintage postcards from Alpert’s personal collection.

Lost & Found is a visual journey through the historic buildings, parks, and neighborhoods of Boston. See the West End, the Freedom Trail, and the Emerald Necklace through the eyes of photographers between 1908 and 1914 (The Golden Age of Postcards!).  Each postcard is matched with an illuminating caption.

Explore the visual language of historic Boston from the old West End to the evolution of Copley Square. The book reveals how postcards - once dismissed as trivial - document cityscapes in a way no other media can. Join Alpert and The West End Museum as they chronicle remnants of urban life in the early 20th century, revealing new details about the past.

Books will be available for purchase at this event.

This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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