Iegar, Diana - Sárándi Tamás: Satu Mare. Amprentele trecutului (Satu Mare, 2009)
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PREFACE aspects which could be a reason for local pride. Thus, images of the city came to be present in the houses of the people of Satu Mare, and in the albums of people originated but not living in Satu Mare any more, or linked to these places by the memory of some travels. Like stamps, postcards became a widespread concern of the collectors. Many of these have an impressive number of cards issued in the most remote places, the strengths of their collections being specimens printed in law number. Besides private collections, Satu Mare County Museum owns a significant number of postcards, mainly illustrated ones, most of them being purchased from several collectors. Unfortunately, old postcards illustrated with images of Satu Mare are relatively few in number in the collection of the museum. A part of the postcards with images of the city from private collections have already been published in some works presenting the city (A régi Szatmárnémeti. Válogatás Janitzky Pál fotó és képeslap gyűjteményéből / The old Satu Mare. A selection from the photo and postcard collection of Janitzky Pál, ed. Muhi Sándor, Satu Mare, 1995; Bura László, Szatmárnémeti kialakulása és fejlődése / The foundation and evolution of Satu Mare, Satu Mare, 2002; Muhi Sándor, Szatmárnémeti. Városismertető / Satu Mare. A guide of the city, Szatmárnémeti, 2003), but those from the historical collection of the Satu Mare County Museum, have never been popularized this way. The chance to present the collection of the museum was offered by the project entitled "Cultural heritage as a factor of cross-border connections" implemented within the Phare CBC Romania-Hungary 2006 program. One of the activities included in the project was the publishing of a catalogue of the postcards about Satu Mare city. Publishing a catalogue of picture postcards exploits first of all the historical values of these objects. On the following pages, however, only the illustrations are in focus, not the messages, written on postcards. Tough, the latter contain valuable information for a historian, 17
