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4346 - Minsk, Belarus

Pretty card. I thought this was a photograph but it is landscape painting by Russian Ivan Shishkin  Иван  Шишкин  (1832-1898) entitled Old Fallen Trees. Forest Cemetery, 1893.  Shishkin was born in Yelabuga in 1832. He attended the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture and the Imperial Academy of Arts.  He was a part of the realism movement and a member of the Peredvizhniki, a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions. It evoled into the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions (Peredvizhniki).  Shishkin painted The Pine Grove in 1898. He had a fatal heart attack is Saint Petersburg while sitting at his easel in front of said painting. 
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4345 - Berlin, Germany

The sender made this card using old postcards she has received but has no where to store them. Clever!

4344 - North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This is a hand-tinted photograph entitled The Rebel  (1991) by Shelley Niro. Niro is an Indigenous filmmaker and visual artist from Canada. She was born in Niagara Falls, New York, in 1954, but grew up on the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve near Brantford, Ontario. Niro grew up entertaining her siblings with songs, storytelling, and picture drawing. Her family would make appearances in her art.  Niro is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Kanienkehaka (Mohawk Nation) from Six Nations of the Grand River.  The model on The Rebel  was Niro's mother. The photo can be found in the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Québec. 

4343 - Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

I think this is a tourist promotional card. On the back, there is information about the photo pre-printed in three difference languages - Portuguese, English, and Spanish.  The photo shows Liberty Square in Belo Horizonte. It reads A Cultural Heritage of Belo Horizonte, the charming Liberty Square gathers around it a diverse architectural landscape, including works by Oscar Niemeyer. A choice for leisure and culture, the square has been a part of the city's history since its foundation. 

4342 - Saint Petersburg, Russia

 

4341 - New Haven, Connecticut, United States

This is a Postcrossing meet up card where is looks like about 20 people met in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in July 2025. 

4340 - Greensboro, North Carolina, United States

This is a great vintage card from Niagara Falls. The card is of the illuminated American fall at night during the winter. I have some of these types of cards in my "to send" pile and I did just send one to Australia. It was a photo of Banff.