Includes bibliographical references (page 410) and index.
Contents:
Foreword / by Leonard A. Lauder -- Preface -- Postcards of the golden age -- Postcards of later years -- Postcard values: grading and other aspects -- Building a collection of postcards -- A closer view of postcard production -- Events and transitions on postcards -- Real photo postcards (RPPCs) -- Political, social, racial, and religious postcards -- Holiday, greeting, and novelty postcards -- Popular sets of postcards -- Signed artist postcards -- Advertising and calendar postcards -- Restaurants, ice cream parlors, saloons, gambling, pastimes, etc. -- Stores, offices, and banks -- Trades, occupations, and professions -- Transportation -- Stages, performers, musicians, circus, and related -- Movies and players -- Amusement parks -- Sports and recreation -- Worlds fairs and related events -- Scenic and view postcards -- Linen and other postcards, late 1930s to date -- Chrome postcards, late 1930s to date -- Appendix A. American postcard printers and distributors -- Appendix B.U.S. postcard clubs.
Summary:
A Guide Book of Collectible Postcards "takes you on a unique trip into the past. Inside this book, you'll find cards of high society and lowbrow humor, natural disasters, social, political, and religious movements, popular artists' illustrations, newspaper comics, circus animals, early movie stars, athletes, planes, trains, automobiles, and the corner general store--and much more! Authors Q. David Bowers and Mary L. Martin share decades of experience in buying, selling, and collecting. They guide you from the earliest postcards of the 1870s to the Golden Age of the 1890s through the Great War, and to the modern chrome postcards found on store racks today."--Publishers website.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.