Vintage Irish Postcards

Having collected old Irish postcards for many years, private collector Mary Horgan Rafferty came to Eneclann with boxes of postcards. Belief in the beauty and value of the images led her to preserving the antique images, to make them accessible and for possible commercial use. The postcards ranged from stereoview (also known as a stereograph or stereoscope) from the 1860s; peat postcards (unique to Ireland); painted art cards; and real photographs. 

After she curated and catalogued the collection, Eneclann digitised 2,100 postcards, capturing the front and back (totalling 4, 200 images). Postcards were captured with our flatbed scanner. Each was custom handled and adjusted individually. The outputs were master TIFFs (600 dpi) and surrogate JPGs. The images were named and organised in folders according to Mary’s own cataloguing system, by county and subject. Mary has used the digitised postcards to hold exhibitions, reproduce postcards and provide digital images for sale.

More information can be found at: Vintage Irish Postcards