The Postcard Thread

[PB]

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In the same vein as PB's postcards, only this field scene was portrayed by actors and actresses.  The guy in the middle looks vaguely like Groucho Marx.

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                                      Fargo ND, May 3 - 08

  Dear Regina  Will drop you a
card, will leave for the good
old farm to morrow.  How are
you,?  Kinder lonesome here
don't you know.
                                     Yours,
                                     W.E.N.

''The Harvest Girls''    ''Sweet Hour of Rest''

This is an unusual looking post card @Rikki Gins.  Do you know anything more about it?  I didn't find anything on ''The Harvest Girls''.  Look at the way they harvested the wheat (?) by hand and tied it into bundles.

There was a Valentine's Company and a related company named Valentine-Souvenir that made postcards, and must have produced this one.  This link has information on both:

http://www.metropostcard.com/publishersv.html 

It mentions Valentine Series (not Valentine's), but that was before they joined with Souvenir.  Also this says the Valentine-Souvenir Co printed their cards in the US

[anniem]

Rikki and PB regarding your postscards

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[PB]

On the Road to Roosevelt, Ariz,

It doesn't say from where.  The way to Roosevelt was still a dirt road.  That the traveler is going by horse and carriage isn't even remarked on in the comments on the back.

The comments mention ''this territory''.  Arizona was the last state admitted to the Union before Alaska and Hawaii.  New Mexico was admitted January 1912, and Arizona in February, so the card must have been printed between 1907 (messages on back allowed) and 1911

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On the Road to Roosevelt, Ariz,

It doesn't say from where.  The way to Roosevelt was still a dirt road.  That the traveler is going by horse and carriage isn't even remarked on in the comments on the back.

The comments mention ''this territory''.  Arizona was the last state admitted to the Union before Alaska and Hawaii.  New Mexico was admitted January 1912, and Arizona in February, so the card must have been printed between 1907 (messages on back allowed) and 1911

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Cool!

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''The Harvest Girls''    ''Sweet Hour of Rest''

This is an unusual looking post card @Rikki Gins.  Do you know anything more about it?  I didn't find anything on ''The Harvest Girls''.  Look at the way they harvested the wheat (?) by hand and tied it into bundles.

There was a Valentine's Company and a related company named Valentine-Souvenir that made postcards, and must have produced this one.  This link has information on both:

http://www.metropostcard.com/publishersv.html 

It mentions Valentine Series (not Valentine's), but that was before they joined with Souvenir.  Also this says the Valentine-Souvenir Co printed their cards in the US

I don't know much about the postcard.  Only that photographers would hire models to pose for them.  After the picture was taken, the photographer would have them act out a different storyline, with a different backdrop.  I have a couple of postcards showing a man and a woman posing in different settings, but wearing the same clothes.

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In celebration of the current Full Worm Moon, I present a postcard showing a full moon over a Woolworth building.

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Postal cancellation stamp:  July 8, 1915.  5 PM.

Did you receive
my letter.  Why
don't you write.
Regards to mother
         from
   McKaflan(?)
   1328 B'way.  NY.

[anniem]

In celebration of the current Full Worm Moon, I present a postcard showing a full moon over a Woolworth building.

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Postal cancellation stamp:  July 8, 1915.  5 PM.

Did you receive
my letter.  Why
don't you write.
Regards to mother
         from
   McKaflan(?)
   1328 B'way.  NY.

Ooo Mrs. T approved the post card after a failure to reply!

[PB]

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Viagrande                          Via Rinazzo

Edizione, Urna.

18 / V (May) / 07
Your 3 San Francisco views delighted me, especially
because they were posted in S.F. & therefore had
more value for my collection, yours    A Feller

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Postmarked: MAG (May) 19
Viagrande

Miss Aimee C. Clement
1013 - 12th Street
Oakland
Cal.

Stati Uniti
America

Stamped return address:
Adolphe Feller
3 Via S. Vito
Catania

NB. Sul lato anteriore della presente si scrive soltanto l'indirizzo:  Write the address only on this side

Unfortunately, the stamp has been ''collected''.  Per Wiki, Viagrande is next to (or a district in) Catania, Sicily, at the foot of Mt Etna.  Not sure what the ''urna.'' edition (edizione) means.

Miss Clement is the person quite a few of these postcards are addressed to.  She must have had quite an impressive collection, I would like to have seen it before it was picked over.  This was sent to her from someone else who collected postcards, and was happy to trade by sending them to each other.

Everyone in this scene is quite aware they are being photographed.  It looks like they are all waiting for something.  Check out the two boys in the middle of the street.  They are each playing an old fashioned game with a wheel, the idea is to keep it moving by chasing it down the street and guiding it with a stick.

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A few more early 1980s postcards from China, issued by the post office, and that go along with related stamps


I love Chinese water colors, the bright colors, the subject matter, the styling - these birds are part of a five postcard / stamp set

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These Buddha statues are part of a four postcard / stamp set.  From a monastery in Datong, Shanxi Province, built 1038

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These postcards - Scenes from Mt Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) - are interesting as they are pre-stamped with the same images that are on the fronts of the cards.  These are from a set of 10. 

The scans of the stamp sides didn't come out well.  Looking at the postcards, they look good, clear - but the scanner sees the front images as green and the back as blue and blurry.

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I like these best

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Thursday Nov 20
Hi - Just a note from
DC.  Having a real
nice trip.  Weather
is nice.  Will leave
for Florida tomorrow.
Hope all is well there.
              Pat & Hazel

Sea-lected foods.  Dining in a boat.  Clever.

[PB]

it's hard to make out, at the bottom part of her dress is written College Mascot, also in blue.  What college team is blue and white, with this kind of dog as mascot?

Below the dog, it's signed Archie Gunn, per Wiki a poster and postcard artist, most of his images are younger women with fancy hats and dresses

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