- Evans o ile a bokella likarete tsa litšoantšo nakong eohle ea bophelo ba hae nakong ea lilemo tsa khauta ho tloha ka 1900 ho isa li 1920.
- Ketsahalo ena e ile ea hlohlelletsoa ke kahlolo ea 1907 ea ts'ebeletso ea poso ea United States ea hore lehlakore le se nang letho la poskarete le ka kenyelletsa aterese ea moamoheli le molaetsa.
- Ka nako e ts'oanang, Ofisi ea Poso e ile ea beha theko ea setempe sa 1 on liposkareteng tsena.
Ntho e 'ngoe e ileng ea thusa ke ho theoha ha litšenyehelo tsa' mala oa offset o neng o fa likarete tsa poso ponahalo ea litšoantšo tse mebala-bala, tse nang le 'mala o moputsoa o bonojoana, meroho le bofubelu.
Nakong ena, mekhahlelo ea likarete tsa poso e ne e kenyelletsa lihotele, libaka tsa phomolo tsa lehlabula, liteishene tsa literene, likoloi, litselana tsa maoto, literata tse kholo metseng, li-capitol tsa mmuso, lifeme, mesebetsi le lithuto tse ling tse ngata. Likarete tsa hotele tse ntle ka ho fetisisa li hlahisitsoe ke lik'hamphani tse peli: Curt Teich & Company, Inc., Chicago le Tichnor Brothers Inc., Boston tseo ka bobeli li ileng tsa koaloa lilemong tsa bo-1970. Ho hakanngoa hore Curt Teich & Company e hatisitse maikutlo a fapaneng a 400,000 ka lihotele tsa United States, Canada le mose ho maoatle nakong ea lilemo tse mashome a supileng a metso e supileng.
Barab'abo rona ba Tichnor ba ile ba hlahisa likarete tsa poso tse 25,000 boholo ba tsona ho tsoa liprofinseng tsohle. Rundown ea Lihotele tse ntle tsa Amerika nakong ea Golden Age ea karete ea poso ea litšoantšo e hlaha ho Barry Zaid ea "O lakatsa eka u ka be u le teng: Leeto la lihotele tse kholo tsa Amerika nakong ea Golden Age ea Photo Postcard" Crown Publishers, Inc. (New York 1990).
“Empa likareteng, lihotele tsohle li maemong a holimo, Lena ke leeto ho haola Amerika leo re ntseng re ka le nka. Re ka inahanela hore ke rona ba sesang ka pela Marlborough - Blenheim lebopong la lewatle, lehlabathe la Atlantic City kapa re haola le jarete tse ntle tsa cactus tsa Phoenix's Camelback Inn kapa re natefeloa ke pono ea lithaba ka lifensetere tse telele tsa Hotele ea Prince of Wales. Serapeng sa Naha sa Canada sa Waterton Lakes. Na ha se tafole ea rona ka phapusing ea ho jela e nang le lifate, pela noka e phoroselang e fetang ka phakeng ea Brookdale, California? Ena ke nalane ea pono, tlaleho ea bophelo ba batsamai ba lilemong tse fetileng. ”
Ka lehlohonolo, lihotele tse ngata tsa khale li bolokiloe ka likarete tse ikhethang tse mebala-bala bukeng ea "Ke lakatsa eka U ka be U le Mona". Mona ke tse ntlehali ho tsona:
SEO U LOKELANG HO SE NKA HO SEHLOOHO ENA:
- We can imagine that that is us swimming in front of the Marlborough – Blenheim on Atlantic City's golden, sandy beach or strolling through the magnificent cactus gardens of Phoenix's Camelback Inn or enjoying the view of the mountains through the tall windows of the Prince of Wales Hotel in Canada's Waterton Lakes National Park.
- This phenomenon was spurred by the United States postal service's 1907 ruling that the blank side of a postcard could include the address of the recipient and a message.
- A rundown of America's great hotels during the Golden Age of the picture-postcard appears in Barry Zaid's “Wish You Were Here.
