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1986ref. 294881986. Very good condition. A personal collection of post cards all with Jewish content put together in the 1980's. A mix of RPPCs color and b&w illustrated views some photo cards of family or people of note many unused 21 franked with approximately 7 full back the rest splitback the transition was about 1905. The cards date from 1905 through the 1940s with one post card signed by Yitzhak Navor Israeli Cabinet minister in 1983. Also includes 1 circular Viewmaster reel of Jerusalem the Old City. All housed in protective plastic sleeves 4 per page within a white binder. unknown
1900ref. BK0100New York: Franz Huld and Arthur Livingston 1900. Three illustrated private mailing cards approximately 3 ¼ x 5 ½ inches each with manuscript messages and Hoboken postmarks dated August 23 1900 addressed to J. H. McNally of Lowell Massachusetts. Minor handling wear and soiling very good. Three postcards depicting the destruction caused by the June 30 1900 North German Lloyd pier fire at Hoboken mailed from the city less than two months later by a man signing himself "Jim" to his brother in Lowell. Two are Franz Huld cards nos. 31 and 32 showing the North German Lloyd docks the day after the fire and the burning S.S. Saale; the third published by Arthur Livingston shows the ruins at the entrance to the company's docks. The sender adds brief observations from Hoboken to the printed disaster views. On the view of the ruined docks he writes "The fire is still smoking." Of the Saale: "This boat is still here they are repairing her." The third explains the group: "I saw these cards today and I thought you would like them. Everything is O.K." The fire swept through the North German Lloyd piers and several vessels in the harbor killing more than 300 people. Postcard historian George Miller has described it as "the first major disaster recorded on postcards" noting at least sixteen American postcard issues and an exceptionally rapid response by publishers; the earliest known copyright was registered only five days after the fire.1 The present cards were mailed while its physical aftermath remained visible on the Hoboken waterfront. 1 George Miller "The first major disaster recorded on postcards" Postcard History October 25 2021 https://postcardhistory.net/2021/10/the-first-major-disaster-recorded-on-postcards-the-hoboken-pier-fire-june-30-1900/. . Franz Huld and Arthur Livingston unknown
1906ref. 23071Oneonta New York: Various 1906. Collection of 50 cards; including: 5 Wilber Block fire cards depicting scenes from the May 22 1906 event - ruins the building in flames 2 different perspectives before the walls fell and as it appeared before the fire these are all undivided back unused postally; 10 real photo cards of the Oneonta H.S.:. including a group student shot all boys; drawing room & study hall interiors stairs corridors gymnasium various exterior views these are divided back AZO except 1 Oneonta Dept. Store pub. which is postally used the others not; 14 black and white cards mostly undivided backs from various publishers: Constructing the viaduct at Richard's Crossing over D. & H. RR; Academy St. School; D.& H. RR shops; the RR round house; Ulster & Del. depot; Milling Co. reservoir; State Normal School; First Baptist Church Club House Main St. Bridge over Susquehanna 9 of these postally used; color cards 17 of various publishers - Oneonta Dept. Store but Wheelock Illinois printed Germany Quarto-Chrome Valentine F.J. Wiltse; including views of the river the new H.S. Windsor Hotel Lake on Crumhorn mountain armory New Oneonta Hotel Wilber Lake 3 cards with trolley views Chestnut & main streets; Fox Memorial Hosp.; D.& H. Depot more 14 are postally used mostly written to a relation in Mt. Vision NY 1911- 1914; 4 miscellaneous real photo cards including standing portrait of Fred J. Moreness; 23 Burnside Ave. Harold Dewey's house; the Episcopal church; Susquehanna River; cards with some edge tips wear those that have mailed with more so - the unused cards especially are very good plus and all are in good to very good condition overall; an interesting collection of imagery from this upstate NY town in the early part of the 20th century. Postcards. Not Bound. Very Good. Various Paperback
1919ref. C98410Felixstowe 1919. Very Good. Postcard album containing 169 original postcards of Felixstowe Suffolk; the majority being b/w photo-cards with captions lettered white. One hundred and thirty-one postcards inserted into album pages with an additional 38 loosely inserted. Comprising a fascinating record of the history of Felixstowe. Subjects include WW1 Peace Celebrations together with domestic scenes of the Beach the Promenade the Cliffs and country walks architecture and gardens. Features include cliff erosion the Pier Felixstowe Dock an outfitters shop the Cottage Hospital and a fire at the Bath Hotel several photos. Many in real-photos style. A photo card of Old Hall Farm suggests the residence of the album owner; one photo card of an elderly Victorian lady is inscribed in pencil 'Cousin Mary Godwin.' Dates range between 1919 WW1 Celebrations and the early 1920s. Original publisher's boards in red lettered 'Post Card Album' in gilt. Decorative repeat pattern on endpapers. Pages in green. Dimensions: 255mm x 230mm. pp.150. Very good. Slight lean. Covers slightly rubbed at edges with some minor loss to head of spine. hardcover
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. 70943One card addressed five with small traces of mounting verso; otherwise a very good lot. For the 35 Shaker related postcards unknown
ref. 69552All are from the twentieth century but from decades spanning that period with black and white sepia toned early chromolithographic and later full color images included. A small percentage perhaps 20-25 have been used with messages and addresses penned on verso and some show a little storage soiling but overall remain in very good condition. For the lot unknown
1947ref. 681331947. Forty-two photo postcards 9 x 14 cm. One has been used and postmarked which is where the date comes from. unknown
1917ref. 88204Various 1917. Postcards. Very Good. A small curated collection of 22 real photo post cards RPPCs most of which depict range-riding branding round-up Texas Arizona etc. roping breaking a horse or just being asked to pose for a photograph. One is colorized. Five postcards are canceled with a 1¢ stamp; postmarks from North Dakota Wyoming 20 Iowa and Nevada. Most are dated before or around 1910 with the exception of one more commercial card dated 1937. Seven postcards have some sort of identifying writing on the back - either person-or-place names and nine postcards are blank. Some of this fabulous grouping of photos of real working cowhands are just begging to be framed and hung on a wall. unknown
1906ref. 7995Seattle: Lowman & Hanford S. & P. Co 1906. Picture postcard. Very Good. 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 undivided back folding panoramic b&w gravure photo postcard. Postmarked Hancock NY May 6 1908. With ink message mentioning the upcoming AYP Exposition. A fine gravure panorama with the cursed SS Oregon of the Northwestern Steamship Co. finally wrecked on its way to Valdez in 1906. Publisher's stock number 2024. Lowman & Hanford S. & P. Co unknown
ref. 42416numbered 4172 through 4177 showing scenes from Walt Disney's 1930's film each 5½" x 3½" unknown
ref. 69558Very Good. Light edge wear. Some with correspondence on the reverse. A couple postcards with areas of abrasion to the reverse. Two with minor markings on the front. The collection as a whole uses deltiology to explore the first half of the 20th century through a unique cultural eye. Postcards although that name was not established first began circulation during the era of the Civil War when the United States government transitioned from the stampless covers type of mail to letters enclosed in envelopes with revenue stamps sold to mail them. Thus plain penny postcards were created. Yet it wasn't until the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 that the modern "picture" postcard was introduced. Largely called private mailing cards or other names these illustrated postcards grew in popularity during 1893-1906. The pioneer era postcards had black and white and later colorful images on one side and on the verso the name and address of the recipient. No message or other writing was allowed on the back. This explains the cramped handwriting on the fronts of cards. In 1906 the US Congress passed a law allowing part of the back of the postcard to include a message with the right side still reserved for the name and address. This created an explosion in popularity of picture postcards postcard collecting groups and pen pals springing up around the world. Subsequently the name postal card post-card or post card started the modern era of pictorial correspondence and only a penny to mail. The collection includes printed postcards real photo postcards sepia tones undivided backs divided backs full bleed borders white borders lines and chromes and largely encompasses the full range and style of printing processes used for modern postcards from approximately 1900-1950. It is arranged by subject and constitutes 47 cards. The collection includes women reading books men reading books and advertisements promoting books and magazines. A collection of postcards highlighting the importance of books in homes libraries and the society at large. With the following postcards in the collection: LIBRARIES The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library General Reading Room. Harvard University. Reference Room- Ryerson Building. Grand Rapids Public Library. The Chained Books All Saints Church Hereford. RPPC. Despacho De La Madre Superiora Convento De Sta Monica Puebla Pue. RPPC. Bookmobile. South Central Nebraska Regional Library. Chrome. BOOK CENSORSHIP Les Sauvages. 1914. BOOK ADVERTISING Little Nature Library. Printed Photo. Biographical Album of Western Gunfighters. Chrome. Publisher's Headquarters. The Curtis Publishing Company Building. "Over the Garden Wall" Given Away with "Princess' Novels." Wilf Carter Montana Slim Songs of the Plains & Rockies. Music Book Advertisement. RPPC. MAGAZINE ADVERTISING The Great Home Journal. Printed Color. The Youth's Companion. The Old Home Week 1911. Printed Color. The Children's Friend. Printed Photo. The Farm Journal. Printed Color. Rough Rider Weekly. Ben Tremont. Printed Color. Rough Rider Weekly. Bean-Pole. Printed Color. Rough Rider Weekly. Kit Summers. Printed Color. The Mother's Magazine. Easter Greeting. MISCELLANEOUS CATEGORIES Time Flies. Get Busy. Book with Skull. "I'm a "Daddy." New Comic Book. Not Postcard Back. The Romance of a Christmas Card. When I Was in Europe. U. R. Tiresome. 1909. Private Library. Advertisement. New Encyclopedia Britannica. Photocard. READING AND POSTCARDS Child Dressed as a Bird Reading Paper. RPPC. Old Man Reading Book. RPPC. Cat Reading Poetry Book. RPPC. Man at Lectern with Book. RPPC. Sarah Bernhardt Reading Book. RPPC. Woman in Rocker Reading. RPPC. Woman Coming Out of Book. RPPC. Female Student Studying Books. Printed Color. Nude Female Reading Book. Printed Color. Elegant Woman with Book. Printed Color. Woman Curled Up in Chair Reading. Japanese Woman Reading Art Card. Printed Color. Kimono Clad Japanese Woman Reading. Hand Tinted. Kimono Clad Japanese Woman Reading. Hand Tinted. Kimono Clad Japanese Woman Reading. Hand Tinted. Muslims Reading in Library. RPPC Tinted. Muslim Reading. RPPC. Tinted. Muslim Reading. RPPC. Tinted. Muslim Reading. RPPC. Tinted. Furniture Store Advertisement with Book. Printed Color. Bible Sales Tent. Bible Readings. Home Circle. Colporteur Tent. Franklin N. H. Aug. 19-29. RPPC. Harry Piel Reading Book. RPPC. Maria Holst Reading Book. RPPC. 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. 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
