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[Walter Robert and Gail Lynn Kransky collection of Edward H. Mitchell postcards].
BANC PIC 2017.021--PIC carton 1; BANC PIC 2017.021--PIC carton 2; BANC PIC 2017.021--PIC carton 3; BANC PIC 2017.021--PIC
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Title:
[Walter Robert and Gail Lynn Kransky collection of Edward H. Mitchell postcards]Creator/Contributor:
Kransky, Walter Robert, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Mitchell, Edward H., publisher.Creator/Contributor:
Kransky, Gail Lynn, creator.Abstract:
Commercially produced postcards depicting locations and other subjects in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii,
the broader United States and beyond.
data and documents supporting Kransky's website pertaining to Edward H. Mitchell, and Kransky's inventory "checklist" of the
publisher's postcards:
Date:
1900 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caKransky, Walter Robert -- Archives
California -- Pictorial works
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Published by Edward H. Mitchell.
Also includes Kransky's research files pertaining to the Edward H. Mitchell portion of his collection (carton 6).
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Walter Robert and Gail Lynn Kransky collection of Edward H. Mitchell postcards, BANC PIC 2017.021, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Gift ; of Walter Robert Kransky and Gail Lynn Kransky ; 2016.
Flash drive containing digital files published on Kransky's website and other collection-related data transferred to the Digital
Collections Unit of The Bancroft Library.
Based in San Francisco, Edward H. Mitchell was one of the most prolific postcard publishers in the United States from the
turn of the 20th century to the mid-1920s.
Walter Robert Kransky was born in Miner, Wisconsin in 1930. In 1948, after attending school in Chicago, he moved to Mountain
View, California, where for 41 years he worked as a technical adviser for Southern Pacific Railroad. Inspired by his mother’s
collection, Kransky has collected pictorial postcards since the age of 8. In the 1980s Kransky began to develop his checklists
for the output of many of the publishers and artists featured in his collection, including that of Edward H. Mitchell. Gail
Lynn Kransky was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1937. Walter and Gail married in 1958 and since then have been active together
in the postcard trade.
Temporary container list available in library.
Type:
graphicPostcards.
Lithographs, color.
Physical Description:
print
approximately 12,000 postcards in 5 cartons, 2 boxes and 1 oversize folder : chiefly color lithographic prints ; sheets chiefly
10 x 14 cm (postcard format)
Language:
English
Identifier:
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BANC PIC 2017.021--PIC carton 1
BANC PIC 2017.021--PIC carton 2
BANC PIC 2017.021--PIC carton 3
BANC PIC 2017.021--PIC carton 4
BANC PIC 2017.021--PIC carton 5
BANC PIC 2017.021--PIC carton 6
BANC PIC 2017.021--PIC box 1
BANC PIC 2017.021--PIC box 2
BANC PIC 2017.021--D
BANC PIC 2017.021
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
IN PROCESS. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via the Notice
of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form.