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Re: Postcard history



I am sorry it took so long to get this information, but I really had to dig.  Here are some of the more helpful sources I found when I did a study of postcards a few years ago:

Applegate, Ray D.  Trolleys and Streetcars:  On American Picture Postcards.  NY:  Dover Publications, 1979.

Cox, Roy.  How to Price and Sell Old Picture Postcards.  Baltimore:  Braemer Press, 1989.

Hals, Peter Bacon.  "American Views and the Romance of Modernization."  In Photography in Nineteenth Century America.  Fort Worth:  Amon Carter Museum of Western Art; NY:  Harry N. Abrams, 1991, pp. 236-242.

Lowe, James L. and Ben Papell.  Detroit Publishing Company Collector's Guide.  Flushing, NY:  Ben Pappell, 1975.

Monahan, Valeria.  An American Postcard Collector's Guide.  Dorset:  Blandford Press, 1981.

Morgan, Hal and Andreas Brown.  Prairie Fires and Paper Moons:  The American Photographic Postcard 1900-1920.  Boston:  David R. Godine, 1981 (and forward by John Baskin).

Pyle, Christine A.  "For Rent."  Image File 6 No. 4, 1991, pp. 9-10.

Ryan, Dorothy B.  Picture Postcards in the United STates 1893-1918.  NY:  Clarkson N. Potter, 1982.

Staff, Frank.  The Picture Postcard and Its Origins.  Washington:  Frederick A. Praeger, 1967 (and intro by James Laver).

Zaid, Barry.  Wish You Were Here:  A Tour of America's Great Hotels During the Golden Age of the Picture Postcard.  NY:  Crown, 1990.

Zigrosser, Carl and Christa M. Gaehde.  A Guide to the Collecting and Care of Original Prints, NY:  Crown, 1971.


If anyone has any other sources to add, I would be grateful to hear of them!


Rebecca Fitzgerald, CA
Mt. St. Mary's Archives & Dept. of Special Collections
Mt. St. Mary's College & Seminary
Emmitsburg, MD 21727
301/447-5397
301/447-6868 (fax)
rfitzger@msmary.edu
http://www.msmary.edu/studentsandstaff/library/archives.htm


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Subject: Postcard history


Can anyone recommend a good book or article on the history of postcards?

Thanks.
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Georgen Gilliam
Curator of Library & Archives
Nantucket Historical Association
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