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Postcards approximately 1898-1929

Physical Description: 5.83 Linear Feet (10 boxes)

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by state, then by topic.

Scope and Contents

Over 5,000 color "Photochrom" postcards created using color lithography and a photograph. These postcards did not circulate and have no writing on them. Subjects include people, activities, city scenes, small towns, farming and agriculture, steel and heavy manufacturing, harbors and shipping, mansions, landmarks, and many others. Each box contains approximately 500 postcards except Box 10, which contains about 75 trial proofs.
Box 1

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California

Scope and Contents

California locations are Anacapa Island, Arrowhead Springs, Beverly Hills, Coronado, Del Mar, Hollywood, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Mojave Desert, Monterey, Mount Lowe, Pasadena, Riverside, San Diego, San Gabriel Mission Play, Santa Barbara, Santa Catalina Island, South Pasadena, Venice, Ventura County, and Yosemite.
Box 2

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland

Scope and Contents

California topics: Flowers, Missions, Railroads, Miscellaneous.
Box 3

Massachusetts

Box 4

Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada

Scope and Contents

Postcards of Detroit, Michigan include advertising cards with printed text advertising specific Detroit businesses.
Box 5

New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York

Box 6

New York and New York City

Box 7

New York City, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas

Scope and Contents

Includes two fold-out panoramas of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Box 8

Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington (State), Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Box 9

Postcards of topics and foreign countries

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by topic, then by country.

Scope and Contents

Postcards grouped into the following topics: African American stereotypes; Agriculture (mostly cotton workers); American flag; Artwork; Children; Cowboys; Native Americans (primarily in Arizona, California, New Mexico); Prospectors (1 postcard); Railroads; Revolutionary War artwork; Scenic views and nature; Ships; World War I (most with printed text at the top: "Authorized by censor").
Foreign countries represented: Bahamas, Canada, Cuba (railroad views), Japan, Mexico, and Switzerland.
Box 10

Trial proofs

Scope and Contents

Examples of postcards with no printing on front or back, some with vertical lettering, some full bleed images with no border.
 

Photographic prints with lithographic coloring approximately 1898-1929

Physical Description: 1.5 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

Scope and Contents

Approximately 300 color "Photochrom" prints of various locations and subjects, generally 3.75 x 7 to 7 x 9 inches. Most are on proof paper with no printed text, though some have printed captions like those on postcards.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by state, then by topic.
Box 11

Color prints by state and topic

Scope and Contents

Prints by state: Grand Canyon, Arizona; California (chiefly Santa Catalina Island); Florida; Michigan; New York; Salt Lake City, Utah; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Wisconsin; Wyoming.
Prints by topic: Animals (cattle, lion, pack mules, ostrich); Boats and ships; Bridges; Buildings; Canyons and scenery (chiefly the Grand Canyon, with many containing copyright of Fred Harvey); Children (African American boys playing, and a Chinese woman with children); Churches and religious art; City and town bird's-eye-views; Commerce; Cowboys; Foreign countries (one image "12770 A Quebec Caleche" with penciled note "Sk Ok DB"; Fruit and flowers; Mining; Missions.
Box 12

Color prints by topic

Scope and Contents

Prints by topic: Monuments; Mountains; Native Americans; Parks; Pastoral; Residences (chiefly of literary figures in Massachusetts); Rock formations; Street scenes; Trains and railroad tracks; Trees; Water scenes; Waterfalls; Winter scenes; Unidentified.
 

Oversize prints approximately 1898-1929

Physical Description: 13.25 Linear Feet (1 box, 3 oversize folders)

Scope and Contents

This series contains 51 large color prints, generally 11 x 18 inches to 22 x 34 inches in size. Includes several proof prints with lithographic markings, and some lithographs of artwork. One photograph is included here, with the matching print.

Arrangement

Arranged by size.
Box 14, Folder 1

Panoramic prints

Box 14, Folder 2

Scenic color print and original black-and-white photograph of image

Box 14, Folder 3

Color lithographs of paintings by artists Louis Akin (1904), E. I. Couse (1904), J. Hambridge, Birge Harrison, and Thulstrup

Box 14, Folder 4

Proof print of postcard images; scenic prints

Box 14, Folder 5

Scenic prints

Folder Oversize 1

Color lithographs of paintings by artists C. Graham (1901), William Harden Foster, Maxfield Parish, and other images

Folder Oversize 2

Color lithographs of paintings by artists Louis Akin (1904), Carl Kustner, and H. Yoshida (1903), and two views of New York

Folder Oversize 3

Scenic prints of mountains and canyons; Library of Congress interior

Box 13

Photographs approximately 1898-1902

Physical Description: 1 Linear Feet (1 box)

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by state and then topic.

Scope and Contents

This box contains 107 black-and-white photographic prints of the American West, chiefly 7 x 9 inches, attributed to photographer William Henry Jackson. A few have his credit: WHJ & Co., and contain dates between 1898 and 1902. See also Box 14, Folder 2 for a photograph with matching print.

Photographs:

• Arizona, including Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest (18 images)
• California, including El Portal and Merced River; Mammoth Hot Springs; Mariposa Grove; Missions (Dolores, San Antonio, San Fernando, San Gabriel, San Juan Capistrano, San Miguel, and Santa Barbara); Monterey; Santa Cruz; Santa Catalina Island; San Francisco Bay; and Yosemite (27 images)
• Canada: British Columbia (10 images)
• Colorado: Mesa Verde (1 image)
• Florida: St. Augustine (1 image)
• Massachusetts (Cambridge: Lowell House; Haverhill: Whittier's birthplace; Lexington: Line of the Minute Men commemorative marker) (3 images)
• Michigan: Belle Isle, Detroit (1 image)
• New Hampshire: North Conway, White Mountains (2 images)
• New York: Catskill Mountains (3 images)
• Washington, D.C. (Capitol; Library of Congress; Washington monument; White House) (6 images)
• Wyoming (13 images)
• Native Americans, including Hopi women (5 images)
• Unidentified (25 images)
Collection Contents
Postcards
Photographic prints with lithographic coloring
Oversize prints
Photographs
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