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POSTCARD REFERENCE BOOKS
The Birth and Development of American Postcards
A History, Catalog, and Price Guide to U.S. Pioneer Postcards ~ by Dr. Dan Friedman, 2003
Softbound 8-1/2" x 11", 380 pages
Published at $39.95 ~ Special Price to Playle's Customers - only $29.95!
The world of Postcard Collectibles is celebrating the publication of this book, The Birth and Development of American Postcards. This insightful volume provides the reader with an invaluable history, catalog, and price guide. The volume is illustrated extensively with pictures of all major types and varieties of Pioneer Postcards. This book is the result of over 10 years of determined research by Dr. Daniel Friedman. His work offers the first historical glimpse into this murky past with sensitivity, clarity, and an organizational framework that ties many loose ends together.
The book chronicles some of the early struggles of our nation and draws from several fields of inquiry including postal history, printing, and illustrating. The author provides us with two chapters that carefully guide us through the many growth stages of American Pioneer Postcards and finishes with a Comprehensive Catalog. This postcard book draws from several fields of inquiry including postal history, philately, printing, and illustrating. The role of the U.S. Postal Service is critically examined and several conclusions drawn.
Chapter 1 discusses the Early Pioneer Postcard Period from 1861-1893 and includes both privately printed postcards and government postal cards. Chapter 2, the Classic Pioneer Postcard Period starts with the impact of the World's Columbian Exposition, which started in Chicago on May 1, 1893 and ended on June 30, 1898 during the Spanish American War. Detailed explanations and numerous illustrations clarify the development of various types of Pioneer Postcards including Business Advertising, Correspondence, Expositions, Souvenir Views, and Topicals. The role of the U.S. Postal Service is critically examined and several conclusions drawn.
The volume provides collectors with relatively complete checklists of the postcards published during the Classic Pioneer Period. The book includes the postcards of the major publishers: Albertype, American Souvenir Card Company, American Souvenir Company, Chisholm Brothers, E. A. Grimm and Company, Charles Haspelmeth, George Hollister, Albert Kayser, Herman Kohle, Theodor Kreh, E. C. Kropp, Arthur Livingston, Ed Lowey, H. A. Rost, M. Seckel, Souvenir Postal Card Company, Star Printing Company, Ferdinand Strauss, Universal Postal Card Company, and Walter Wirths as well as numerous other smaller publishers. Postcard overprints are cross referenced with their original listings in the Comprehensive Catalog (Chapter 3).
The Appendix includes Definitions, Hints on How To Identify Pioneer Postcards, Visual Guide to Government Postal Cards, After the Pioneers, Excluded Postcards, an extensive subject based Index, and a Bibliography.
This book provides detailed explanations and illustrations which clarify the development of the four types of Pioneer Postcards including Advertising, Correspondence, Expositions, Souvenir Views, and Topicals with an invaluable history, catalog, and price guide to early American Postcards that were printed between 1861 and 1898.
Helbock's Post Office Series
Each volume contains an alphabetical listing of all post offices that have ever operated! Includes county, dates of operation and a rarity factor/dollar value. A useful series for the postal historian, post card collector or genealogist.
United States Post Offices Vol. 1 - The West $ 27.50
Helbock; 1998; 222 pages; Softbound. Contains Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
United States Post Offices Vol. 2 - The Great Plains. $ 27.50
Helbock; 1998; 222 pages; Softbound. Contains Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas.
United States Post Offices Vol. 3 - The Upper Midwest $27.50
Helbock; 1999; 264 pages; Softbound. Contains Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
United States Post Offices Vol. 4 - The Northeast $27.50
Helbock; 2001; 288 pages; Softbound. Contains Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
United States Post Offices Vol. 5 - The Ohio Valley $27.50
Helbock; 2002; 288 pages; Softbound. Contains Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio.
United States Post Offices Vol. 6 - The Mid-Atlantic $27.50
Helbock, 2004; 270 pages; Softbound. Contains Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, DC, and North Carolina.
United States Post Offices Vol. 7 - The Lower Mississippi Valley $27.50
Helbock, 2006; 270 pages; Softbound. Contains Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
NEW! United States Post Offices Vol. 8 - The Southeast $27.50
Helbock, 2007; 224 pages; Softbound. Last of this series. The final four states are South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.
ART NOUVEAU POSTCARDS
Authors Fanelli & Godoli
377 Pages, 9 x 11, Hardcover w/Dust Jacket
Over 750 Full-color Illustrations!
Price - $89.95 plus postage, lightly used
Significant Art Nouveau artists of the period are fully represented. Their postcard illustrations have never before been collated and published in book form. They offer the observer a visual panorama of the turn of the 20th century. Includes the works of more than 500 artists in over 750 full color illustrations. A biographical dictionary of the artists is included, together with a list of the publishers of their postcards, a bibliography, and a comprehensive index. This book, published in 1987, has long been out-of-print and highly sought after by postcard collectors. Hardcover, 377 pages, text in English. We have only 2 copies left, very lightly used, VG-EX condition!
The Iowa State Fair in Vintage Postcards ~ by Ron Playle
Each August, the Iowa State Fairgrounds, home to America's quintessential state fair, becomes 400 acres of sights, sounds, and aromas. More than just a showcase for farm machinery, the fair has one of the world's largest livestock shows, hundreds of competitive events, first-class entertainment, and every imaginable food-on-a-stick. The first Iowa State Fair, held in 1854 at Fairfield, drew 10,000 visitors, and attendance now tops one million each year. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it has been held at its present location in Des Moines since 1886. In the early 1900s, fairgoers could choose from a large selection of postcards, stick on a penny stamp, and mail them to friends to describe their blue ribbon, an exciting midway ride, or the great entertainment. Over 190 vintage postcards provide glimpses of the Iowa State Fair from the 1890s to the mid-1950s.
I think you will enjoy looking at the images of early Iowa State Fairs, seeing the way fairgoers dressed, and the how the fairgrounds looked in the early years. You will read about those great old grandstand extravaganzas and daredevils. You will find lots of interesting historical tidbits and fun facts that I uncovered in researching this book. To list a few:
- The "First Photograph Ever Taken from the Clouds" was an aerial photo of the fair in 1906.
- Douglas MacArthur, who later became WWII supreme allied commander, set a world's record at the fairgrounds in 1909.
- The 1909 appearance at the fairgrounds of the first powered aircraft of any type to be purchased by any branch of the U.S. Military.
- The first auto races at the fair were held in 1901, not in 1911 as previously thought, between two steam-powered autos.
- The story about a young woman, who in 1904 was arrested when she was found sitting on the lap of a young man at the fair entrance.
Published by Arcadia Publishing
128 pages, softcover 6-1/2" x 9-1/4"
Note: Author will autograph by request