Showing posts with label hand colored photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hand colored photos. Show all posts
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Meet Me In Paris

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   I've long been fascinated by World's Fairs but have never visited one. Many years after it closed, I was in Seattle, went up in t...
Monday, October 9, 2023

More Later

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  I've been putting up a lot of stuff from some of the collections I have, so I decided to go to the oldest unfinished collection I have...
Saturday, August 19, 2023

The Great Smokey Mountains National Park

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   I've got a fair number of postcards in my collection that started out as photographs, and this is one of them.  It's also one of ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The Pennsylvania Turnpike

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   I have a high level of confidence that the original source material for this postcard was a photograph, so I'm posting it here rather...
Sunday, May 15, 2022

Those Spring Chicks

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   It's time to return to my longest ongoing, incomplete collection that dates back to 2013.  Anyway, I bought an envelope of postcards ...
Saturday, January 8, 2022

At Home

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  Just started digging in the box of loose photos when I found this old postcard.  Believe it or not, it's part of the longest-running c...
Thursday, October 3, 2019

A California Home In Midwinter

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Because I don't have a conventional job, and because I'm one of the many  leeches accepting socialist handouts in the guise of s...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

The Really Steep Part of the Mt. Lowe Railway

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Okay, I'm not going to write a lot about Thaddeus Lowe and his bizarre attempt to build a tourist  railroad and resort in the San...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Holiday In Havana

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I've long know that postcard publishers often made stereo-cards as well.  This is the fist time I've seen a postcard that is not...
Monday, December 17, 2018

Harvey House, Barstow, California

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Think of the Harvey House as the first true chain restaurant.  Fred Harvey opened his first two restaurants along the Kansas Pacific Rai...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

The Singer Building

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Perhaps it's my age.  Perhaps it's my mother making clothes for the family on her sewing machine.  For whatever reason, say Sing...
Friday, October 19, 2018

The S.S. Dorothy Bradford

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I live in Los Angeles and I've always wondered why ships aren't a regular part of local transit.  We've got ferries to Catal...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

And He Rolls In

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As the caption reads, "2 A. M. And He Rolls In Quite Early." When I was in college, I had a history professor who liked t...
Monday, September 3, 2018

Things Travel

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I've just got back from my first real vacation in far too many years.  I found this postcard in Panguitch, Utah.  It was never maile...
Saturday, August 4, 2018

No ICE in Sight

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Yes, I know.  The world is very different now from when the original photograph, the basis of this card, was taken.  Still, it's nic...
Saturday, July 7, 2018

A Bit Of Sweden

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Hey, I like a good smorgasbord.  A Bit of Sweden isn't there anymore.  It was at the corner of Sunset and Doheny on the Sunset Strip...
Thursday, May 31, 2018

Dolores Del Rio and Her Hollywood Home

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What can I say?  I love Dolores Del Rio.  She was born in Mexico, moved to Hollywood during the silent era and started working in the mo...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

The Post War European Trip Collection-Swiss Mountains

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All postcards, all published in Switzerland.  I wrote in an earlier  post that Gloria Lee was on an American Youth Hostel cycling ...
Friday, February 16, 2018

The Post War European Trip Collection-Missouri

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It's time to start another collection.  As a rule if I buy an envelope full of material related by theme, and if it's a...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

Victoria, B.C.

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I purchased this card on EBay.  The seller had two versions of this image, this one, and a real photo postcard.  I bid on both in hope t...