The picture postcard has been around since 1897 in America. I collected my first cards on a family vacation to the MidWest during the summer of 1966. Some time in the latter part of the 1970s my twin brother introduced me to antique postcards via a visit to a postcard show at an old hotel in Pasadena. I bought one old card, which I still have. A decade later I was attending local postcard and vintage paper shows on a semi regular schedule. Being a photographer I had made black and white postcards beginning about 1974 using Kodak postcard paper which had a divided back and the word P O S T C A R D printed across the top portion of the card. But in 1990 I had the bright idea that I could make cards in the darkroom without the Kodak paper cutting my own double weight paper to size and stamping the reverse side with a custom made stamp. I also employed a method to print captions on to the sensitized side of the card using lithographic film. It was fun while it lasted. The last cards I printed in the darkroom were done about 2005, or when digital photographer finally persuaded me to leave the chemical behind.
Here is a very random sampling. Part 1 :
Thanks for visiting! Jim Staub
Here is a very random sampling. Part 1 :
Thanks for visiting! Jim Staub
Jim,
ReplyDeleteI love your cards and always bid on them when they show up on eBay.
Are you willing to sell any from your stash?
Thanks for considering.
John Rock