Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked Frontier, Wyoming, May 1908. Publisher unknown. Price: $6.00 A funny one showing a guy who’s been picked up, to his complete surprise, and has sailed through the air on the hook of a crane, to…Read More…
Category: The Alice Ellison Collection
George’s Handmade Card
Handmade card. Circa early 1900s. Size: About 3 and 1/2 x 5 and 1/2″ Price: $7.00 On the reverse: “Bessie Geo made this card.” “J. H. + ? ?” It’s not often that you come across handmade cards and here’s…Read More…
Fort Shafter, Honolulu
Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked May 1917 from Schofield Barracks, Honolulu, Hawaii. Publisher: Hawaii And South Seas Curio Co., Honolulu. Series/number 190/A-17584. Price: $5.00 The postmark year on this one doesn’t show up but since the postcard has a two…Read More…
I Think It Great
Divided back, unused postcard. Publisher unknown. Series 852. Made in the U.S.A. Circa 1918. Price: $10.00 Cute postcard circa 1918 (another example of this same postcard shows up elsewhere online with this date) showing a boy and girl, the smiling…Read More…
You’re Just My Style
Divided back, unused with writing on the back. Publisher unknown. Series 852. Artist: Witt. Circa 1918. Price: $10.00 There is no artist’s signature on this postcard but it seems to have been done by the person who signed his or…Read More…
I Ain’t Nobody’s Sweetheart Yet!
Divided back, artist-signed, used postcard. Postmarked March 1921 from Fresno, California. Publisher: Edward Gross Co., New York. Comic No. 25. “Smile Messengers.” Availability status: SOLD Adorable cutie in white dress with pink polka dots and wearing a big pink bow…Read More…
Why Don’t You Come To Fresno
Divided back, artist-signed, used postcard. Postmarked from Fresno, California May 22, 1917. Publisher S. Bergman. Series or number 1060. Price: $8.00. Besides the usual wear, this card has some soil marks on the little girl’s face. In keeping with the…Read More…
Indian War Dancer
Divided back, unused postcard with writing. Publisher and distributor: Bob Petley, Phoenix, Arizona. From a Kodachrome original by Ray Manley of Western Ways. Made in the U.S.A. Series or number K140. Photo circa early 1950s. Postcard circa 1963. Price: $5.00…Read More…
Chief Caping And Jaro
Divided back, unused postcard. Publisher: Sanborn Souvenir Co., Inc., Denver, Colorado. Color by Nesbitt. Printed by, West Nyack, New York. Series 9536-B, Number 3607. Circa 1963. Price: $8.00 There is a black and white 1947 postcard online at Princeton University…Read More…
Mazatlán 1958
Divided back, used postcard. Publisher unknown. Number or series 60. Postmarked in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico on February 2, 1958. Price: $15.00 “2/1/58. Dear Aunt El & Unc. Geo. Here is a card from Mazatlan, the nicest place we’ve been so…Read More…