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"Greetings from Chicago, Illinois" large-letter postcard produced by Curt Teich The history of postcards is part of the cultural history of the United States. Especially after 1900, "the postcard was wildly successful both as correspondence and collectible" and thus postcards are valuable sources for cultural historians as both a form of epistolary literature and for the bank of cultural ...
Large-letter postcards were a style of postcards popular in North America in the first half of the 20th century, especially the 1930s through the 1950s. The cards are so-called because the name of a tourist destination was printed in three-dimensional block letters, each of which were inset with images of local landmarks. [ 1 ]
The V. O. Hammon Publishing Company was a Chicago-based manufacturer of postcards from the Great Lakes region in the early 20th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of 1915, the company would buy only postcard rights to negatives from photographers.
Curt Otto Teich (March 1877 – 1974) was an American publisher of German descent who produced popular color postcards, primarily of scenes from American life. He was a pioneer of the offset printing process. Under his management, Curt Teich & Company became the world's largest printer of view and advertising postcards. [1]
Paul Frederick John Volland Hughes Phelps (April 24, 1875 – May 5, 1919) was a 20th century publisher, and the founder of the P. F. Volland Company. [3] In 1908, he would become the founder of the P. F. Volland Company, [3] which would work to publish poetry books, greeting cards, [1] music, children's books, calendars, cookbooks, and children's occupational games, [1] all between 1908 [2 ...
I became a one-way pen pal for democracy in 2018, writing letters and postcards to strangers in the lead-up to that year’s midterm elections.
With steam locomotives providing fast and affordable travel, the seaside became a popular tourist destination, and generated its own souvenir-industry. A seaside postcard. In the early 1930s, cartoon-style saucy postcards became widespread, and at the peak of their popularity the sale of saucy postcards reached 16 million a year.
Humorous greeting cards, known as studio cards, became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s. In the 1970s, Recycled Paper Greetings, a small company needing to establish a competing identity against the large companies like Hallmark Cards, began publishing humorous, whimsical card designs with the artist's name credited on the back.