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The people behind the payments

For Mastercard’s 60th anniversary, meet the people who helped move payments from switchboards to seconds and the collectors preserving the cards that tell the story of how we paid.

The payments pioneer The card keepers
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Mastercard at 60

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Joy Ewing sits on a stage at an event celebrating her years at Mastercard

Mastercard at 60

Meet the card-carrying collectors preserving payments history

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Rich Hudson holds a Master Charge credit card, one of my in his collection.

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Digital assets

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