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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #450 on: October 03, 2018, 08:14:55 PM »
   I had to post like this for some reason.. not sure how to post pics.. last one included too much of my other items in my PC.. LOL

Sure.  I think you're fine though, I only saw the one picture.  Sounds like a cool place.  I'd like to see it someday.

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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #451 on: October 03, 2018, 08:44:21 PM »
There is a little picture icon button.

Or you use “tags” which are placed between [~~~] brackets where the tilde is the tag.

For a picture put a img tag between the brackets and another one to end the image link by using an /img in between brackets.


If you quite someone’s post that has an embedded picture you will see the format.

   Thank you very much.. the first pic i posted was fine but had a link to the Museum below the first pic so maybe only i could scroll thru the other pics and items on my computer.. so i just erased it and did it another way.

thank you again.. A lot of great people on this site haven't been here in awhile
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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #452 on: October 05, 2018, 04:22:41 PM »
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I wish I knew the name of this beauty because I fell in love with her.  Like Art's favorite movie 'Somewhere in Time' I'd like to journey back and look this little lady up.

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There is no name on the postcard but it appears that she was part of the American Beauties series of postcards.

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Was this considered as being softcore porn back in those days?

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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #453 on: October 05, 2018, 04:36:13 PM »
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I wish I knew the name of this beauty because I fell in love with her.  Like Art's favorite movie 'Somewhere in Time' I'd like to journey back and look this little lady up.


I do believe we have met her before in the 100 Years Ago today thread on the old board.  Now I am going to have to find that picture again
when I should be working for the man...................    ;)

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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #454 on: October 05, 2018, 04:38:10 PM »
I do believe we have met her before in the 100 Years Ago today thread on the old board.  Now I am going to have to find that picture again
when I should be working for the man...................    ;)

Thanks, Walks, but be careful.  Don't want to get you in trouble.

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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #455 on: October 05, 2018, 04:38:54 PM »
Well I saved a snippet.  She was buying a hat in some Detroit Department Store round about 100 years ago. 

Close enough?

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« Reply #456 on: October 05, 2018, 04:40:11 PM »
Thanks, Walks, but be careful.  Don't want to get you in trouble.

Well I'm not on the clock or anything.  A 60 hour week is a short one for me so no worries there....................

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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #457 on: October 05, 2018, 04:41:10 PM »
Well I saved a snippet.  She was buying a hat in some Detroit Department Store round about 100 years ago. 

Close enough?

Ha.  I remember that pic.  Thanks, Walks.

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« Reply #458 on: October 05, 2018, 07:46:52 PM »
 Hey Rikki i did some research and couldn't believe eBay had it.. maybe this will give you more info since there is a hand written message and name on the post card.   here's the link   https://www.ebay.ca/itm/D-Hillson-The-College-Widow-Red-Black-American-Beauties-Ser-4100-1907-Postcard/292731599245?hash=item442829b98d:g:JM0AAOSwBLdZrGLy


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I wish I knew the name of this beauty because I fell in love with her.  Like Art's favorite movie 'Somewhere in Time' I'd like to journey back and look this little lady up.

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There is no name on the postcard but it appears that she was part of the American Beauties series of postcards.

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Was this considered as being softcore porn back in those days?

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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #459 on: October 05, 2018, 08:43:38 PM »
Hey Rikki i did some research and couldn't believe eBay had it.. maybe this will give you more info since there is a hand written message and name on the post card.   here's the link   https://www.ebay.ca/itm/D-Hillson-The-College-Widow-Red-Black-American-Beauties-Ser-4100-1907-Postcard/292731599245?hash=item442829b98d:g:JM0AAOSwBLdZrGLy

The link you have posted provides some information on the artist, a man by the name of D. Hillson.  It appears that he was an artist and not, as I had supposed, a photographer.  He seemed to specialize in drawings that were designed to titillate, believe it or not, the male (predominantly anyway) populace of the early twentieth century.  The lady in your link is actually different than the one on my postcard.  The lady in your link is labeled as being 'The College Widow.' (Wow!  I definitely want to journey into the past to visit her. Haha.)  She almost looks the same as the one on my postcard.  My postcard is called 'The Girl From The Golden West.'  The two look very similar but they are wearing different hats.  Was Hillson using the same model?  I wonder.  I also found this postcard online called 'The Queen of Sports.'

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And also this link to some more of his work: https://www.tias.com/14177/PictPage/3924170762.html

I'm drawing conclusions on the guy because my search engine isn't strong enough to ferret out any definite info on him.  Also, I'm not sure why these American Beauties postcards are done up in red.  Thanks Darth, for providing another piece of the puzzle to this mysterious woman (or possibly mysterious women) from 1907.

 

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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #460 on: October 06, 2018, 06:35:22 PM »
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Now here is a first for this thread.  A postcard touting a postcard show.  I'd gladly go to it but I'd have to go back in time a good 34 years to do so.

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Here is an old postcard from WWI.  Surprisingly, it is a birthday card.

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Unless I'm wrong, I read the date as being April 28, 1918.  There was still a little under seven more months of war to go, when the note was being written.

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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #461 on: October 06, 2018, 07:08:56 PM »
That is amazing information  you wrote.. now i'm looking at the older post cards..lol.. very interesting for sure
   
    found a real old post card that i believe its the same one you are interested in.

  https://www.etsy.com/listing/591033330/the-girl-from-the-golden-west-d-hilsons?ref=search_recently_viewed-2
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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #462 on: October 06, 2018, 08:11:00 PM »
That is amazing information  you wrote.. now i'm looking at the older post cards..lol.. very interesting for sure
   
    found a real old post card that i believe its the same one you are interested in.

  https://www.etsy.com/listing/591033330/the-girl-from-the-golden-west-d-hilsons?ref=search_recently_viewed-2

Haha, yup, that's the one.  If you go to your link and scroll upwards you will see another card in the series called 'Hello Girl.'
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Hello Girl - D. Hilson's American Beauties post cards- 1907 post mark - 1 cent stamp. Pensive Red Lady with graceful hat and attire of early 1900's against a black background. Beautiful gentle profile drawing. This was a 1907 copyrighted series of D. Hillson's called American Beauties, Series 4100, 23 Subjects. Card is used, slightly yellow back, very slight discoloration on black edges, and a slight small bent mark on upper corner. Collectible unusual rare series.

I think there are 23 'beauties' in the series.  It's funny but they all kind of look like the same lady to me.  Thanks again, Darth.

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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #463 on: October 08, 2018, 04:08:22 PM »
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I tried to post this card yesterday so that we could have had Sunday dinner there at the Regency Dinning Room, but I got too busy with other stuff.  Anyway, here is a nice indoor shot of the room.  The restaurant sits inside the Heritage Inn at Williamsburg, Virginia.  I wonder if Shay P. has been to this place?  Quite a regal looking place to eat, huh?

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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #464 on: October 08, 2018, 07:20:08 PM »
Do you have an absolute favorite one, Rikki?
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