Archive for the ‘Greeting / holiday’ Category
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
This card is a rerun from last year – I’ve previously posted all of my Halloween cards.
Use the sidebar to go back to October, 2008 to see a grand collection of Halloween postcards. I’m recycling this one to celebrate the day.
Postmarked 1914 it is addressed to my Uncle Ted (Edmond Englehart). The text of the message has faded over the years. It reads: “Dear Ted Hope your enjoying yourself Halloween evening. I know I would be if I was in Frisco When are you coming up?” No signature.
I think the spelling of Hallowe’en is interesting. We don’t see it spelled with the apostrophe now-a-days. The card is published by the Fairman Co. and there is a series number, C 920.
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
This is postcard #3 in this series of somewhat odd postcards.
This 1907 postcard appears to be some sort of actual photograph rather than a printed postcard. It is not a typical ‘real photographic postcard’ as those usually have a glossy surface and look like photos. I do not know what process was used to produce this postcard – any ideas among you readers? Comment below.
There is a written message on the face of the card; it looks like it was written in pencil and the pencil marks combined with residual chemicals to fade the marks. The postcard is addressed to Miss Bruce Walker, in Berkeley and it is postmarked as mailed in Roseville, Ca. (a city a few miles North-East of Sacramento). The message on the card reads: “Roseville 2-25-07 Just received yours from Grand Canyon I expect to leave here any day now. May possibly run home for a day but not sure yet. I will not see the Auto Show would like to”. It looks like there might be some initials as a signature.
The postcard is titled, In A Bad Fix, (I don’t quite get the title) and the postcard was published by The Rotograph Co. It has a copyright date of 1906 and a card number, B1188.
Tags: antique, ephemera, kitten, post card, postcard, vintage
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Postcard #3 in the Minnesota series. 
This is the third of these St. Cloud real photo postcards used as Christmas Cards. This one is addressed to Mrs. Walker (the previous two postings were to the two Walker girls, Laura and Bruce). (I have no real knowledge of the Walker family who seem to have lived all over the U.S. but I have learned enough about them through these postcards to have the feeling that I know them.)
I made the assumption on the prior two postings that these were personal photos that were transferred onto postcard stock. I see that this one has a card number so perhaps these were the product of a commercial operation rather than home made. As the other cards, this one is signed only with the initials N.V.C.
The image is titled, Central Park, St. Cloud Minn and has the card number 1108.
Tags: antique, ephemera, Minnesota, post card, postcard, St Cloud, vintage
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
Postcard #2 in the Minnesota series.
This postcard is similar to yesterday’s post in that this postcard is a real photo postcard and is sent as a 1906 Christmas Card to one of the Walker girls. The 1906 postcard is titled, “Below the Dam” and is a pastoral scene apparently near St. Cloud, Minnesota. the card is unsigned except for the initials, N.V.C. The postcard is a transfer of some sort of the sender’s personal photo to postcard stock.
Tags: antique, ephemera, Minnesota, post card, postcard, St Cloud, vintage
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
This is the first in a 5 card series of vintage postcards from Minnesota.
This vintage postcard, postmarked in St. Cloud, Minnesota, 1906, is a ‘real photographic postcard’, that is, a photo, printed using photographic (rather than printing) techniques and printed onto postcard stock. The image has a sort of blue hazing which probably is from deterioration of the photo chemicals.
The postcard doubles as a Christmas Card with the Words, Merry Christmas – 1906 written in message space. The card is signed with the intials, M.V.C.
The image has the title, “The Footbridge St. Cloud, Minn” On the date this card was mailed, split back cards were allowed by Postoffice Regulations but this card must date to earlier in the year when a message was allowed only on the front of the postcard.
The postcard is addressed to one of our frequent correspondents on this BLOG, Miss Laura E. Walker. Miss Walker must have been living in Washington D.C. in the winter, 1906.
Tags: antique, ephemera, Minnesota, post card, postcard, St Cloud, vintage
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
This is the final postcard in this series of vintage Easter Postcards.
This embossed vintage postcard is addressed to my Grandmother in Sacramento. Although postmarked 1908, the card is from at least a year eariler as it does not have a split back. The split back postcard became legal in the U.S. in 1907. The card is from Clara in Owosso, one of the members of the Frieseke clan which settled in Michigan when they first arrived from Germany. This Easter postcard is in the religious mode with the message, The Lord is Risen on the front of the card.
There is no publisher or card number visible on the postcard.
Tags: antique, easter, ephemera, post card, postcard, vintage
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Saturday, April 11th, 2009
This is postcard #7 in the Easter Series
This is another secular Easter postcard, although undated it is probable circa 1910 or so. I tend to think of secular greetings for the traditional religious holidays as being a modern trend. However a couple of the cards in this series as well as some of the cards I posted on this BLOG back in December in a Christmas postcard series show that this trend was flushing back in the early 20th century.
This postcard is unused. The publisher is Bergman and it has a card number, 2634/2.
Tags: antique, easter, ephemera, post card, postcard, vintage
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
This is vintage postcard #6 in the Easter series.
This 1913 Easter Greeting postcard is addressed to my Aunt Grace Englehart. The written message reads: ” With love from Ned and Gertrude Blackstock for Grace and Anitta. There is no publisher listed on the card but it does have a card number, 7215.
Tags: antique, easter, ephemera, post card, postcard, vintage
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
This is the fourth vintage postcard in this Easter series.
This postcard was mailed to my Uncle Ted Englehart in 1909. From his Aunt Mary, the message reads: ” Dear Ted. Hope all are well, tell Mamma to write soon as it is so long since I heard from her with live from Aunt Mary”. (This hardly seems like an Easter greeting to a young boy.)
All the edges on the illustration are treated with a gilt ink, giving them a sparkly effect. The gilt does not really show on the scan of the card. The postcard has a publisher and copyright date, J. Thomas 1908.
Tags: antique, easter, ephemera, post card, postcard, vintage
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
This is the third postcard in this Easter Postcard series.
This postcard has a copyright date of 1910 and a postmark of 1911. The postcard is addressed to my mother, Anita Englehart. She would have been 10 years old at the time this card was written. The card is signed by Malcolm who I believe was a cousin.
The postcard was published by the Gibson Art Company. The Gibson Art Co. was started in the 1850s and is today’s Gibson Greeting Card Co. There is no card number or other information on this postcard.
Tags: antique, ephemera, Gibson Art, post card, postcard, vintage Easter
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