Part Two of Two Parts This is the second of two posts inspired by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts exhibition entitled “The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection,” on view through April 14, 2013. Showcasing around 700 postcards from Mr. Lauder’s massive collection—which he recently gifted to the MFA—it is an immensely interesting and fun exhibition. The first post, last week, entitled “Postcards from France: Provence and the Côte d’Azur,” focused on the postcard craze that swept across the world around the turn of the 20th century and showed postcards from a friend’s collection of images from the South of France. This post focuses more on what inspired Mr. Lauder and shows postcards from other regions. Circa 1938 postcard: “You who is a liar and bad tempered, you will be Hitler and we will give you a spanking!” In 1940 when Leonard Lauder was just seven years old, he purchased his first postcard. It was the Empire State Building. Young Lauder, son of cosmetics mogul Estée Lauder and her husband Joseph, purchased five postcards of the very same image for five-cents, a sum requiring his entire allowance. Little did he know that this small purchase [...]