Miami is not perfect, unless of course you are looking at it through a collection of postcards. In 1896, Henry Flagler's train tracks made their way down south and Miami was officially incorporated as a city. Two years later, the postcard hit the mainstream when Congress passed the Private Mailing Card Act of 1898, allowing for private publishers (postcards had previously been printed and pre-stamped by the government only) and inadvertently creating a lifelong marriage between Miami and the postcard.
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