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- Rob Hegge: Jim Colby was born in 1883 in Michigan.
His family moved to Wausau in 1896.
In 1908, the Post Office estimated that they'd processed
670 million postcards.
You can begin to see that this was a real craze,
and Colby decided that he could marry his passion with this
and become a postcard photographer.
He captured Wisconsin, in the area around central Wisconsin,
but also all over.
And he just did a stunning job.
If Colby had lived in a bigger city,
we might not have this same record
because he may have converted all of his pictures
to the printed cards, and that was the more common card.
I'm aware of well over 200 different photographers.
There may be some that occasionally rise
to Colby's standard, but Colby stayed there the whole time.
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