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In 1903 Kodak introduced a camera, designed for postcard-size film,
allowing the general public to take photographs and have them
printed on postcard backs. .
created a service called “Real Photo postcards, enabling
people to make a postcard from any picture they took..
While Kodak was certainly the major promoter of photo postcard
production, they didn't seem to originate the term "Real Photo," But it has become the popular
term nowadays to distinguish photographic postcards from
commercially printed, mass-produced postcards of the same era.
Real Photo postcards may or may not have a white border, or a
divided back, or other features of postcards, depending on the paper
the photographer used. . The way to tell if a postcard is a real
photo is that if you look at a Real Photo postcard, the image is
solid while looking under the magnifying glass Postcards that
are NOT Real Photos are made up of many small dots.
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