THE PIONEER HALL OF FAME
Here are some of our favorite Pioneer Postcards, in color, for you to enjoy.
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P#2209 Description: An Early Pioneer Greeting with Calendar, published by Munson on a blank back.
P#5917 Description: An “Early Pioneer” Will Call postcard that is also a Corporate Postcard. (Sherwin Williams Paint Co.) This is one of the earliest 4-color postcards printed
P#13416 Description: A “Classic Pioneer” View Postcard of Philadelphia. Grimm published a series of 12 views in 1897-1898
P#14500 Description: A “Classic Pioneer” Topical Flag Postcard published anonymously in 1898
P#19218 Description: A “Classic Pioneer” View/Topical Postcard published anonymously in 1898. This is one of a series of 4 postcards, each with a watercolor appearance
P#13670 Description: A “Classic Pioneer” View/Topical Postcard published by Kropp on June 10, 1898. This is one of a series of 2 cards.
P#14031 Description: A “Classic Pioneer” View/Topical Postcard published by Universal in 1898. This is one of a series of 10 cards.
P#10503 Description: A “Classic Pioneer” Private Die-Cut Postcard. Interesting for its’ unique shape and style of mailing (folded over, creased down middle, addressed and mailed with a stamp on a blank back
P#4501 Description: An “EarlyPioneer” View Postcard on a UX1 back. May be the first published American view postcard. Note the reversed image of the USPOD watermark on this UX1 postcard.
P# 6710 Description: A “Classic Pioneer” View Postcard with a Moving Notice on a UX10 back.
P#5809 Description: An “Early Pioneer” Will Call Illustrated Advertising Postcard depicting an early stereotype of a black child eating watermelon.
P#12182 Description: Cotton States and International Exposition showing Women’s Building on a Private postcard
P#1002 The Lipman postcard, the first US postcard. Mailed in 1869-1870, 4 years before the first Government printed postal card of 1873. Note the border and fine hatch markings.
P#14190 Description- Front of GAR postcard from Buffalo.