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The owner of the collection, Petro Korpaniuk, is a descendant of several generations of famous Hutsul carving masters Shkriblyak and Korpaniuk, a winner of the Volodymyr Hnatiuk Prize, compiled and published at his own expense an album - a catalogue of postcards "My Native Land", 2007, 384 pp. He collected his collection of postcards for over 25 years. No other collector has such a large collection of postcards on Hutsul themes.

The album contains reproductions of postcards, mostly made from photographs of 1900-1939. The photos depict cities, towns, and villages, as well as landscapes and inhabitants of Hutsul, Pokuttya, Boikivshchyna, and Opillya. Myroslav Blyzniuk, Oleksandr Kahlyan, Oleksandr Polishchuk, Volodymyr Havrylenko, Ivan Vyshyvaniuk, Serhii Polehenkyi, Roman Bilyk, Oleh Hrechanyk kindly offered postcards from their collections for the album, and the compiler expresses his sincere gratitude to them.

The compiler expresses special gratitude to the Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art for the opportunity to place images of its exhibits on the bookplates.