I love vintage postcards. If I could only collect one theme of postcard, it would be vintage illustrated postcards of people on a beach. While I really like the black and white illustrated beach postcards, the colored postcards are my favorites.
How I Use Them
There are so many clever uses for using reproductions of these postcards! Here are some ideas to get you started:
- Coasters – I print color copies of these postcards on cardstock, laminate them, and use them as coasters for Summer gatherings and parties.
- Placemats – I also print color copies in large format, laminate them, and use them as placemats – a fun touch of Summer for any dining room table, and they are always a conversation starter.
- Wall Decor – I frame copies of the postcards in a collage-type layout and hang them in our pool house. Just beachy!
- Notecards – I like to turn cardstock copies of the postcards into notecards. Send the copies through the mail as a postcard to friends, or use the cards to write your to-do lists and other important notes. TIP: If you are going to mail colored copies, you might want to use a colored laser printer versus an inkjet printer, as the inkjet print may run if it gets wet in transit.
For You To Use
I’ve gathered 48 of my favorite illustrated beach postcards here for you to use. All of these postcards are available in public domain (they are not copyrighted). I have touched them up and edited them to make them more usable. Feel free to save these images and use them freely in your home decor or art projects*. See below for instructions on how to enlarge and save the images.
Happy Summer at the beach!
How to Save the Images:
- Click on an image to enlarge it
- If you would like to save the image at the 1000-pixel wide resolution, right-click the image and select “Save Image As” and save the image to your computer, OR…
- If you would like to view and save the image as a high-resolution image, click the resolution link above the image, then right-click the image and select “Save Image As”
- Click your browsers BACK button to return to this page for more images, or click the Next and Previous links above the image to advance to more images
Need help finding public domain postcards to use in your decor? Check out my article “Are Vintage Postcards Copyrighted?”
(*Please Note: I’ve spent hours touching up these postcard images to make them more usable. If you are going to post these images on your website or blog, I would appreciate a link back here as the source. Thank you!)
What are some clever ideas you have for using these images?
Fun Finds to Take To The Beach:
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Some of my favorite beaches, especially Hampton Beach! Home of fast cars, skeeball and Blink’s Fry Doe. I can smell the Coppertone…