Postcard of the Day

[fflo]

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[elainegrey]

Fascinating how the woman's face is obscured by the bull horn.

[fflo]

Only that one guy in the middle seems to know a pic's being taken. Maybe by someone with a tripod and the mini-blanket flopped over them and the camera, like Buster Keaton in that old movie. :)

I'm impressed by all the

[jesse_the_k]

great hats on display.

Are these scans or photos? They're beautifully sharp, however you're doing it.

Re: I'm impressed by all the

[fflo]

It varies---they're either scans I scanned myself or images of postcards I've gathered. Just found, when cleaning personal stuff off my work computer, a bunch of images of sets of cards (usually 4 at a time) that went up for auction starting at $1 each at a now-defunct site called Playle's (Mr. Playle died, and I think it was his son kept it going a while to get rid of cards)--- sometimes when I decided not to bid (or bid higher) I'd save the image, and then crop for the card (or two) I liked most. Those can be a little lower in resolution.

This card was original a photograph, obviously, but processed in the 1907--1915ish range (real heyday of cards in the U.S.), during which German printers in the U.S. with really good techniques made a lot of postcards. (During WWI the quality dropped dramatically.). This one being an "RP" (real photo) puts it into its own postcard nerd category, and those varied wildly in quality. Lots of small photographer shops would make them. Local disasters like train wrecks would be popular topics, but the greatest number were portraits, often in the form of people in front of their homes, or just their homes. And there were early "exaggeration" cards.

I'm just blathering on now, however. Haven't slept but a couple hours in a couple days. Stopping now. :)

Re: I'm impressed by all the

[jesse_the_k]

Hope you sleep like a happy baby tonight!

Love the blathering, though -- I appreciate a deep dive into any fandom.