Side-by-side comparison of the Chief Bemidji Statue in Bemidji, Minnesota: a 1962 postcard on the left and a 2024 photograph on the right, showing over sixty years of the statue’s history

Vintage Postcard Recreation: Chief Bemidji Then & Now

The Postcard Time Machine Project Begins So here’s how this whole vintage postcard recreation project started. In July 2024, Zach and I visited Bemidji, Minnesota, for UniCon ’24—the last one that’ll be held in the US. We stopped at a lakeside park to photograph the Chief Bemidji statue, one of many stops we made exploring …