LANDMARK POSTCARD BOOK PUBLISHED
NEW BOOK SHEDS LIGHT ON EARLY U. S. POSTCARDS
The world of Postcard Collectibles is celebrating the publication of a new 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.
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