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1920ref. 223564Japan.: 海雲台温泉合資会社. Kaiundai Onsen Goshi Kaisha. Circa 1920's. Eight black and white postcards presented in a paper folder. The cards are all in very good condition the paper folder is worn with two small punch holes along upper edge a sellotape stain long lower edge. Very good. A set of eight black and white postcards of Haeundae Hot Spring Resort near Busan South Korea produced in the colonial era probably 1920s and published in Japan. The postcards are contained in a decorative sleeve and show the modern buildings of the hot spring resort the surrounding coastal landscape and interior shots of the Japanese style rooms and the big hot spring tubs with women and children enjoying their baths. The postcards were produced at a time when the Japanese government was enthusiastically encouraging Japanese tourism to the colony of Korea and this spa resort probably run by Japanese owners appears to be part of the growing network of Japanese tourist sites in Korea Taiwan and later Manchuria. . 海雲台温泉合資会社. [Kaiundai Onsen Goshi Kaisha]. unknown
1900ref. 207382Colombo Ceylon.: Plâté Ltd. Early1900s. Eight pictorial colour postcards all captioned and numbered with the publisher's studio series versos blank in two columns 8.8 x 13.8 cms or portrait in very good condition. Eight Plâté photographic postcards the last four from their "Art series" : No. 13 A Tamil Lady in Rickshaw Ceylon No. 18 Hindu Temple Colombo Ceylon No. 20 Mohammadan Mosque Colombo Ceylon No. 36 Temple Elephants after their bath Kandy Ceylon No. 43 A typical road scene Ceylon No. 54 A Double Bullock Cart Ceylon No. 82 Street Scene in Pettah Colombo Ceylon No. 105 Street Scene in the Pettah showing Native Quarters Colombo Ceylon A. W. Plâté & Co. was a prominent photographic studio in Ceylon now Sri Lanka founded in 1890 by Alfred William Amandus Plâté a German-born apothecary. The Plâté firm was instrumental in popularizing photography on the island and quickly became renowned for its high-quality photographic postcards capturing the island's landscapes people and daily life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By 1907 their annual postcard production reached half a million. ".Plâté provides an important testimony to the development of colonial Ceylon during a crucial period of many changes and a substantive repository that provides a visual archive to support further historical research." see Benita Stambler "Maintaining the Photographic Legacy of Ceylon" on the University of Michigan's website . Plâté Ltd. unknown
ref. 218559Japan. Twenty one postcards 5 in colour the rest black and white photographic images. Some occasional spotting and browning light wear edges and one creased in places. Presented in a slightly chipped black lacquer box. Overall the collection is in fair to good condition. An interesting miscellaneous collection of twenty one Japanese postcards in a black lacquer box mostly dating from the 1910s and 1920s. Fourteen of these show scenes from a large Japanese military training exercise held in November 1919. Each card has a commemorative stamp of the Army Training Exercise and its date November 1919. There is also a card featuring a painting of the OSK line ship "Amerika Maru" and another with a picturesque Japanese scene and an inset photo of the OSK ship "Konan Maru" possibly a souvenir card given to passengers on the ship. Two other cards are New Year's greeting cards one of them dated 1939 and rather curiously written in Russian although it appears to have been sent from one Japanese man to another. Perhaps the most interesting in the collection is a postcard from Crown Prince Hirohito's 1921 visit to England which shows the Crown Prince shaking hands with one of Lloyd George's grandchildren although the scene is completely stolen by another small grand-daughter who stands in the middle of the photograph completely ignoring the presence of the Crown Prince. The collection also includes a 1948 entry permit to a market run by the Osaka Fruit and Vegetable Association. . unknown
1910ref. List3897United States 1910. Nine real photo postcards most standard postcard size several postally used with divided backs. Images include families and groups gathered on porches and in yards with phonographs or gramophones lakeside and camp scenes with record players an interior scene showing a man posed beside a piano and phonograph and several portraits of men with tabletop and horn machines. Some wear silvering soiling and handling; generally very good. A group of real photo postcards documenting the domestic and social use of gramophones and phonographs in the early twentieth century. The cards date from the period in which recorded sound was moving from novelty to common household entertainment. Victor introduced the internal-horn Victrola in 1906 and by the following decade phonographs had become recognizable features of parlors porches camps and other informal leisure settings. The commercial growth of the industry was rapid: Victor's 1904 Red Seal recording of Enrico Caruso singing "Vesti la giubba" is generally described as the first million-selling record while less expensive records and machines helped bring recorded music into a broader range of American homes.1 The group shows the machines among families vacationers young men porch groups and domestic interiors centering the new technology in social gatherings during the period. 1 Marc Hogan "How Much Is Music Really Worth" Pitchfork April 16 2015 accessed July 21 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20150501155808/https://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9628-how-much-is-music-really-worth/. . unknown
ref. 1580623778.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1940ref. 32442AB1940. Mixed Editions. 30 Volumes. London John Lehmann / Allen Lane - Penguin Books / Rupert Hart-Davis 1940-1965. Octavo. The Postcards written from Venice Florence and Santa Barbarabetween the years 1952 and 1977 / Postcard I: From John Lehmann in Venice to Adrian Liddell Hart: "This city does not boast a supply of the "Sunday Dispatch" and as the writer was gripped and enthralled by the last installment on June 1st he hopes you will keep copies of the .for him to read on his return in ten Days time - J." / Postcard II: From John Lehmann in Florence to Adrian Liddell Hart: "Am staying with Sir Harold Acton here in his marvellous Villa - calme luxe "Villa La Pietra" all night.pity you aren't with me. Off to the sea this afternoon - may post this in Porto Ercole. Your old friend is relaxing. Gracefully - Love J." Date hard to decipher possibly in 1962 / 3. Postcard III: From John Lehmann in Santa Barbara in California to Adrian Liddell Hart: "Terribly sorry to hear about the broken leg may it mend quickly as surely it must undo the ministrations of Florence .Nightingale. I expect to be in England all March but then off again - to Jimmy Carter Country - Love J." 20.2.77. Hardcover and Softcover. Of the series of 28 Volumes of the "New Writing " Series only three with stronger signs of wear and in poorer condition. All others in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Lehmann's personal copy of Sean O'Faolain's Autobiography with the original dustjacket in poor condition but the Volume itself very good. This set of books belonged to Adrian Liddell Hart Lover and friend of publisher John Lehman from whom he received these publications fresh from the press. Included in the collection are for example: "The Penguin New Writing" Volume I - Second Edition 1941 with Georg Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" / Morton Freedgood - "Good Nigger" etc. Volume II: - First Edition 1941 with a note in pencil by Lehman: "Publication Jan. 10" with Rosamond Lehmann - A Dream of Winter / Stephen Spender - Books and the War I / Louis MacNeice - June Thunder / B.L.Coombes - The Way we live now I / Fanfarlo - Shaving through the Blitz etc. Volume III: - First Edition 1941 with W.H.Auden - Lay your sleeping Head / Willy Goldman - The Way we live now II / Fanfarlo - Shaving through the Blitz - II / Rosamond Lehmann - When the Winters came / Jean Giono - The Corn Dies / Volume IV: - First Edition 1941 with Louis MacNeice - March gave clear Days / C.Day Lewis - Ode in Fear / Margot Heinemann - Grieve in a New Way etc. Volume V: - First Edition 1941 with W.H.Auden - Exiles / F.G.Lorca - The Dawn / Louis MacNeice - The Way we live now IV etc. Volume VI: - First Edition 1941 with John Lehmann - Seven Poems of Vienna / Bert Brecht - The Informer / Dylan Thomas - A Visit to Grandpa's / etc. Volume VII: - First Edition 1941 with Jean Paul Sartre - The Wall / F.G.Lorca - Song / W.H.Auden - The Leaves of Life / Rosamond Lehmann - For Virginia Woolf / etc. Volume VIII: - First Edition 1941 with Laurie Lee - The Armoured Valley / Dylan Thomas - The Peaches / Georg Anders - Song of the Austrians / Ahmed Ali - Morning in Delhi / Beatrix Lehmann - The £2000 Rasperry etc. Volume IX: - First Edition 1941 with Graham Greene - Men at Work / Robert Pagan - The Night before the War / F.G.Lorca - Song of the Andalusian Sailors / Charles Brasch - In These Islands / Inez Holden - The Flat above me / Yuri Olesha - Love etc. Volume X: - First Edition 1941 with Laurie Lee - Poem / Jean Howard - The Night of the Landslide / Ignazio Silone - The Journey to Paris / Rex Warner - Two Sonnets / Roderick Finlayson - The Totara Tree / W.H.Auden - The Novelist etc. Volume XI: - First Edition 1941 with Anna Seghers - The Rescue / Dylan Thomas - Extraordinary Little Cough / F.G.Lorca - The Clear Death / Isobel Leslie - Fine Spring Weather / Volume XIII: - First Edition 1942 with Laurie Lee - Two Poems / Christopher Isherwood - Berlin Diary II / John Lehmann - Vigils / Frank Sargeson - Making of a New Zealander / Paul Nizan - About Theseus / Elsa Triolet - "Mayakovsky - Poet of Russia" / With Drawings by Keith Vaughan / Volume XIV: - First Edition 1942 with Julia Strachey - Fragment from a Diary / Christopher Isherwood - The Day at La Verne / W.H.Auden - Two Poems / Walter Allen - Reflections on Aldous Huxley / With Photogravure Illustrations From the Film "The Foreman went to France" / Volume XVIII: - First Edition 1943 with John Lehmann - The Heart of the Problem / Walter Allen - The Novels of Graham Greene / George Barker - Elegy on the Eve / Laurie Lee - Two Poems / Jiri Mucha - Manoeuvres / etc. Volume XIX: - First Edition 1944 with Edith Sitwell - One Day in Spring / Donagh MacDonagh - My Grandfather was Irish / W.H.Auden - Victor / John Lehmann - Virginia Woolf / etc. Volume XX: - First Edition 1944 with Demetrios Capetanakis - The Isles of Greece / Elizabeth Bowen - Mysterious Kor / George Barker - Three Poems / Edith Sitwell - Girl and Butterfly / John Lehmann - Three Poems / H.B.Mallalieu - Two Poems / William Plomer - Introduction to E.M.Forster etc. Volume XXIII: - First Edition 1945 with Denis Glover - It was D-Day / John Heath-Stubbs- The Defeat of Romanticism / Laurie Lee - Three Poems / Edith Sitwell - A Song of the Cold etc. Volume XXIV: - First Edition 1945 with Frank O'Connor - A Story by Maupassant / Peter Viertel - Smudge / John Lehmann - State Art and Scepticism / etc. Volume XXV: - First Edition 1945 with Anthony Thorne - Potatoes Have Hips of Their Own / Rupert Doone - Three Shakespearean Productions / John Heath-Stubbs - Georg Crabbe and the Eighteenth Century / etc. Volume XXVI: - First Edition 1945 with John Lehmann - Two Poems / Alec Guinness - Money for Jam / etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann 2 June 1907 7 April 1987 was an English publisher poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals "New Writing" and "The London Magazine" and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited. Born in Bourne End Buckinghamshire the fourth child of journalist Rudolph Lehmann and brother of Helen Lehmann novelist Rosamond Lehmann and actress Beatrix Lehmann he was educated at Eton and read English at Trinity College Cambridge. He considered his time at both as "lost years". At Trinity Lehmann had a passionate relationship with Virginia Woolf's nephew Quentin Bell. After a period as a journalist in Vienna he returned to England to found the popular periodical New Writing 193640 in book format. This literary magazine sought to break down social barriers and published works by working-class authors as well as educated middle-class writers and poets. It proved a great influence on literature of the period and an outlet for writers such as Christopher Isherwood W. H. Auden Edward Upward and miner-author B. L. Coombes. Lehmann included many of these authors in his anthology Poems for Spain which he edited with Stephen Spender. With the onset of the Second World War and paper rationing New Writing's future was uncertain and so Lehmann wrote New Writing in Europe for Pelican Books one of the first critical summaries of the writers of the 1930s in which he championed the authors who had been the stars of New WritingAuden and Spenderand also his close friend Tom Wintringham and Wintringham's ally the emerging George Orwell. Wintringham reintroduced Lehmann to Allen Lane of Penguin Books who secured paper for The Penguin New Writing a monthly book-magazine this time in paperback. The first issue featured Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant". Occasional hardback editions combined with the magazine Daylight appeared sporadically but it was as Penguin New Writing that the magazine survived until 1950. He joined Leonard and Virginia Woolf as managing director of Hogarth Press between 1938 and 1946. He then established his own publishing company John Lehmann Limited with his novelist sister Rosamond Lehmann who had a nine-year affair with one of Lehmann's contributing poets Cecil Day-Lewis. They published new works by authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Nikos Kazantzakis and discovered talents like Thom Gunn and Laurie Lee. Lehmann edited two anthologies of new writing entitled Orpheus: A Symposium of the Arts 194849. He also published the first two books by the cookery writer Elizabeth David A Book of Mediterranean Food and French Country Cooking. He published two of Denton Welch's posthumous works: A Voice Through a Cloud for which he supplied the title 1950 and A Last Sheaf 1951. This publishing house published several book series including the Chiltern Library the Holiday Library the Modern European Library and the Library of Art and Travel. It operated from 19461953. In 1954 he founded The London Magazine remaining as editor until 1961 following which he was a frequent lecturer and completed his three-volume autobiography Whispering Gallery 1955 I Am My Brother 1960 and The Ample Proposition 1966. In The Purely Pagan Sense 1976 is an autobiographical record of his homosexual life in England and pre-war Germany discreetly written in the form of a novel. He also wrote the biographies Edith Sitwell 1952 Virginia Woolf and her World 1975 Thrown to the Woolfs 1978 Rupert Brooke 1980 and Christopher Isherwood. A Personal Memoir 1987. His book Three Literary Friendships 1983 deals with the relationships between Lord Byron and Percy Shelley Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine Robert Frost and Edward Thomas. In 1965 he published Christ the Hunter a spiritual/autobiographical prose poem which had been broadcast in 1964 on the BBC Third Programme. In 1974 Lehmann published a book of poems The Reader at Night hand-printed on handmade paper and hand-bound in an edition of 250 signed copies Toronto Basilike 1974. An essay by Paul Davies about the creation of this book is included in Professor A.T. Tolley's collection John Lehmann: A Tribute Ottawa; Carleton University Press 1987 which also includes pieces by Roy Fuller Thom Gunn Charles Osborne Christopher Levenson Jeremy Reed George Woodcock and others. John Lehmann died in London on 7 April 1987 aged 79. Wikipedia paperback
1895ref. 17092AB1895. Paris Reutlinger 1895 - 1902. 14 : 9 cm. 30 phtographic postcards. All postcards are addressed to Madame Dr. F. von Scanzoni the wife of the famous doctor Friedrich Wilhelm von Scanzoni at his time the celebrate doctor for midwifery alle von einem Onkel Jacob. The portraits are of Madame de Villers Carolus Duran Luz Chavita Réjane Marcell Lender u.v.a. unknown
1907ref. 10724AB1907. Vienna Wiener Werkstätte 1907. 142 : 9 cm. Coloured lithographed postcard with monogram by Franz Karl Delavilla. Postcard from the Wiener Werkstätte No. 20. Franz Karl Delavilla born 1884 in Vienna was studying at academy of performing arts in Vienna as pupil of C.O. Czeschka and Berthold Löffler from 1913 on professor at the academy of performing art in Magdeburg Hamburg and Frankfurt. He was famous for his excellent illustrations and design specially for the Cabaret Fledermaus for designs for textiles wall-papers etc. He dies 1967 in Frankfurt/Main. - Clean and unused. - Hansen Postkarten der Wiener Werkstätte no. 20 with illustration. unknown
1895ref. 17093AB1895. Paris Charles Ogerau a.a. 1895 - 1902. 14 : 9 cm. 17 phtographic postcards. All postcards are addressed to Madame Dr. F. von Scanzoni the wife of the famous doctor Friedrich Wilhelm von Scanzoni at his time the celebrate doctor for midwifery alle von einem Onkel Jacob. All from famous Parisian ateliers like Charels Ogerau Henri Manuel Paul Boyer and others. The portraits are of Mara d'Asti Nina d'Asty Liane de Vries Luca Gerard Anna Held Charlotte Wieh and others. unknown
ref. 77793Lausanne:: Louis Burgy no date early 20th c. publisher's gilt-lettered cloth album containing 30 color postcards of Swiss costumes. The album is faded and a little stained; cards fine. 12mo. Louis Burgy, hardcover
ref. 76640Various places; various dates. Generally fine condition. unknown
1912ref. 58909Detroit:: Detroit Publishing Company 1912. Fine. Detroit Publishing Company, unknown
ref. 51-4104Que. Canada: circa 1907-1960s. Approx. 200 postcards of Canada mainly Québec . Many addressed to people in France. Que. Canada: circa 1907-1960s unknown
1920ref. 25352E1920s. Original collection of 46 1920’s vintage color postcards of film actors’ homes and movie studios in Hollywood Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. Included are the impressive homes of Harold Lloyd Buster Keaton Kin Vidor Colleen Moore Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks ‘Pickfair’ John Gilbert Jack Dempsey Sessue Hayakawa William S. Hart Tom Mix Rudolph Valentino Will Rogers Nazimova to name a few. With the film studios of Goldwyn Warner Bros. Metro Famous Players Lasky and more. Each postcard is in a clear plastic sleeve within a large photo album. A lovely way to connect to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the lives of those in the film industry at the time. unknown
ref. 41052503Group of 8 photo postcards color and black and white very clean most unused a few used as a group only. This is an excellent lot of eight period postcards most likely from about 1898-1920's. THE CARDS & THEIR CAPTIONS: a. No caption. Shows what looks like a Manchurian Princess in elaborate gowns sitting beside a Chinese man smoking opium large format 14.5 x 10.2 cm. black & white very good verso blank. . b. "N. AN OPIUM DEN SHANGHAI. "Verso shows publisher as Denniston & Sullivan Shanghai no. 2. b.w. shows two Chinese men sharing an opium pipe usual postcard size unused card. . c. "CHINESE OPIUM SMOKERS." Color card shows 5 Chinese men with queue hair style one smokes an opium pipe one other smokes a 'water pipe' a child looks on verso publisher states: "Published by the Turco-Egyptian tobacco store Hong Kong Queens Road Old Post Office Building else blank card unused. . d. "CHINESE OPIUM SMOKING." Black & white card shows 6 Chinese men with queue hair style one smokes an opium pipe one other smokes a 'water pipe' while others look on. Verso blank unused card. The color photo illustration occupies 2/3 of the card balance 1/3 to the right is blank. Front states: "Edward H. Mitchell publisher San Francisco." . e. "57 UNDERGROUND OPIUM DEN CHINATOWN SAN FRANCISCO CAL" Color card shows the dank dark basement type opium den common to the San Francisco area in the early 1898-1900's. Shows 4 Chinese men one with a long queue 3 smoke the opium pipe. Verso is blank but printed: "Authorized by act of Congress of May 19 1898. This could be close to that date. . f. "SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA UNDERGROUND OPIUM DEN CHINATOWN." This is similar to the above but a full-sized card color view. Front also states: "Published & Manif. by the Galloway Lithographing Co. S.F. Cal." Verso is blank unused. . g. "CHINESE OPIUM DEN 614 JACKSON STREET CHINATOWN SAN FRANCISCO THE CAT HAS BECOME ADDICTED TO THE FUMES OF THE DRUG." Color photo with 1905 dated ink message on the front cover also on the front is: " Britton & Rey Lithographers San Francisco 512." Verso is addressee postmark round dated and cancelled one-cent stamped with 1905 postmark. Shows a Chinese man with queue hair style smoking an opium pipe a cat sits on his body being held in place by the man's hand. . h. "OPIUM AND PIPE SMOKERS." Color card shows 6 Chinese with queue hair styles two smoke opium. Verso is with penned message dated 1910 round-dated stamp with half-penny stamp addressed to Jersey a UK island. CONDITION: All items in very good or better original condition. Please view the photo images posted to our web site if any questions. . unknown
ref. 24044601Japan n.d. ca 1900-1920's. A green cloth photo album faded green leaves 23 x 39 cm. very good contains 100 cards in all: 71 hand-colored 15 color 14 b.w. cards mounted in slits provide. A very nice period collection. S C A R C E A stunning and beautiful collection of postcards mostly un- used lovely hand colored photographs from about 1900-1910 with four from the 1920's-30's. The album begins with a group of four Japanese women and a young girl under a wisteria garden another shows a woman dishing up a bowl of rice then a lovely young girl plyaing the Koto; other views show flower arrangement New Years Kimono winter scenes with women holding a large umbrellaand with a hood for head protection and another shows two girls reading a book; a girl sewing holding a baby riding a Jinrikshaw in the garden more of girls reading books doing household chores playing the Shamisen poses for New Years cleaning house making dinner and changing her Kimono with friends and hair dressing. This album shows the Japanese woman at her daily chores wearing her finest Kimono for New Years or other celebrations Zen arts of flower and tea cute poses dressed up to visit friends riding the ricksha playing music eating dancing and just about everything in her life as a daughter sister mother and wife. The black and white photos show similar poses 4-5 appear to be 1920's movie stars most in Kimono one in a Western style dress. These beautiful photo postcards show Japanese women at their best wearing stunning and elaborate Kimono with their tradition- al coiffeur holding an umbrella wearing Geta sandals. Some are studio posed others taken in a live setting. A good insight to period Japanese women and their costume and traditions. By and large a comprehensive look at Japanese womanhood a comprehensive and remarkable collection. Color scans can be sent by email. unknown
ref. 22014601Darjeeling & other places n.d. ca. 1910. A nice group of portrait postcards shows ethnographic view of Tibetans some printed in Austria Japan Bombay very good solid strong images. Unusual pictorial source. Each have English captions. The first shows: Darjeeling-A comely Bhutia Cooly Lass. A Tibetan man. A Lepcha Woman. A Lepcha Group man & woman. Group of Bhooteas Darjeeling. A pair of Tibetan women. A group of Lama Priest & Disciples. One is an actual photograph all others are collotypes or other photographic methods. unknown
ref. 41053501A group of 47 period color Hong Kong postcards some hand colored lithograhs &c. Shows harbor various streets Peak tram opium smokers rickshaws &c. unknown
ref. 22013601Tsingtau n.d.ca 1930. A group of 5 nice photo postcards each unused very good in clear plastic protectors English & Chinese captions. S C A R C E A good group of city views. Shows two panoramic views Shan- tung Rd. Yi Shuei Rd. Akabane-Machi Central market. Scans can be sent by email. unknown
ref. 41053201A group of 68 items: 1 orignal early b. w. panoramic view of Singapore factory & quay; post cards: 11 color 27 b. w. 29 original b.w. photographic cards all very good most unused a few used with text and some stamps. A nice lot ! unknown
ref. 41053601A group of 43 black & white period photo post cards lithos collotypes &c. Shows the harbor tram rickshaws streets foreigners hawkers &c. most unused a couple with textand some are actual photographs all clean nice. AS A LOT. unknown
ref. 41053101A group of 4 items: Hotel Bela Vista Macao luggage label in the shape of a green leaf with harbour view; 1 postcard with 3 Chinese junks and Macao to the left; 2 Cenenario de India 1498-1898 celebratory cardsunused all clean bright items. unknown
ref. 22014001Darien ca.1911-15. A group of 4 unused postcards very good each contained in a clear plastic envelope along with a stamped envelope mailed from Canton China with postmark and 25 Sen denomination Sun Yat Sen stamp affixed. SCARCE Likely printed in Japan some of these cards have English Japanese & Chinese captions which read: The S.M.R. Co. from Kodama Street. South Manchurian Railroad Co. The view of Nihon-Bashi the finest bridge of all the East. Naniwa Street. Tokiwa bridge. Nice set of early architectural views shows the Western style buildings. Scans can be sent by email. unknown
1920ref. List3820Chicago Illinois: Schlink Studio 1920. Real photo postcard measuring approximately 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Studio portrait of an African American musician standing in overcoat hat gloves and cane beside a chair displaying a saxophone and clarinet. Divided postcard back. Light wear and soiling with small loss or surface disturbance at lower margin; very good. A real photo postcard portrait of an African American musician posed with saxophone and clarinet. The sitter is not identified but the portrait was clearly made to present him as a professional or semi-professional performer rather than as an informal amateur. The formal clothing cane and carefully arranged instruments give the image the character of a publicity or theatrical portrait. The combination of saxophone and clarinet is especially appropriate to early twentieth-century dance-band and jazz performance when reed players commonly doubled on both instruments. The photograph likely dates from the period in which Black musicians circulated through local orchestras theater bands dance halls vaudeville circuits and early jazz ensembles often leaving behind few named records apart from photographs like this. A strong real photo postcard portrait of an African American reed player with good visual presence and clear musical content. . Schlink Studio unknown
1930ref. 91724n.p. 1930. Very Good. Approx. 14 x 9 cm. Unused and undated. Glossy Sepia-toned. Modest soiling and wear mostly on non-photo side. Decent detail. Indistinct background. Wearing dead birds as hats was apparently popular in the late 19th and early 20th century although this postcard seems later than that. unknown
