"M'en avisou" ("I remember") said the elders. and they then began to tell their lives, their memories, made of "little things" and great moments, intimate stories and general descriptions but which, put end to end for centuries, thus forged, connected by writing, our collective memory. Then came the photographic image, the one that made it possible to immortalise this story and these descriptions through the visual support. It was of course a revolution in the safeguarding of man's cultural heritage and in the historical, sociological and ethnographic knowledge of it. First of all, from 1890, after the first so-called "precursor" postcards that appeared in 1870, there were illustrated maps where the subject was simply drawn. Then from 1900 to 1920, a period called the "golden age of the postcard", photographers, often relayed by publishers, used this support for commercial purposes, and there was no tourist site, a village, a city that was not reproduced photographically in postcard, as well as many typical scenes, characteristic characters and traditional activities. In this regard, Menton and Mentonnais have been the subject of a large production of old postcards, for several reasons: first, as in any city at that time, residents received and sent cards about any event in their daily lives that required communication (the telephone being rare or non-existent, and modern means of transmission having not yet been created).