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Dewald Furniture Moving Truck Curt Teich Linen postcard

4/20/2016

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Dewald LongDistance Moving Truck,  Jos. G.Dewald, Furniture and Piano Moving. Daily trips to the Loop. Est 1905. 4939 N. Western Avenue Chicago catalog 1930, linen Curt Teich postcard.  From Curt Teich Archives.

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Salmon Fishing on the Oregon Coast 1920c postcard

12/8/2015

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Salmon Fishing on the Oregon Coast 1920c postcard #bidstart

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Outdoor Movie Set Indoors Christie Studios Hollywood California 1920c postcard

4/24/2015

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Shooting an outdoor scene in an indoor studio at Christie Studios Hollywood California. Click on the image to go to the listing.

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World's Largest Movie Studio University City California 1920c postcard

4/18/2015

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The world's largest movie studio in the 1920s, Universal City, Los Angeles, California. Click image to go to the listing.

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Elgin Watch Factory Elgin Illinois 1920c postcard

1/26/2015

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The Elgin National Watch Company was in business between 1864 and 1968.  The founders of the company persuaded watchmakers from Waltham Watch Co in Massachusetts to join them in Elgin, Illinois, some thirty miles northwest of Chicago, where a new factory was built for the manufacture of Elgin watches.  The original, now obsolete, factory in Elgin closed in 1964 with final US manufacture under the original brand being discontinued in 1968.

The company became famous for its pocket watches and manufactured many of the self-winding wrist watch movements made in the U.S.

Old Father Time came to be identified as the Elgin mark.

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Panama Canal Construction 1910s postcards

4/25/2014

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The Panama Canal was one of the man-made Wonders of the World in the early 1900s. After a French project had failed the United States took over construction between 1904 and 1914, with the canal opening to shipping in August 1914.  

In the early 1900s, people were impressed by the way the Industrial Revolution had made possible the transformation of the natural landscape and thus many industrial and engineering achievements appeared as postcard views to record the ways in which this transformation was occurring. The Panama Canal was just such an accomplishment of engi_neering and sheer hard work of tens of thousands of workers. In all, some 200 million cubic yards of material had to be moved by both the French and American projects over a 30 year plus period.  Machinery on a large scale made it possible - steam shovels, railroad trains, cement works, dredges and more - were essential to the task.

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Steam shovels, concrete mixers, and dredges were all part of the mix in creating one of the man-made Wonders of the World.

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Champion Bridge Works Factory Wilmington Ohio 1910c postcard

4/7/2014

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Champion Bridge Works Factory Wilmington Ohio 1910c postcard

The Champion Bridge Works Company was formed in 1872 when brothers Zimri and Jonathan Wall formed a partnership with Albert Israel Bailey to develop a wrought iron trussed arch bridge. They moved their business from Hamilton Ohio to Wilmington in 1875 to a new, larger factory in which they could fabricate bridges. In the following two decades the company grew rapidly necessitating a move to larger premises. 

In 1894 the company moved into the East Sugartree Street building pictured in the postcard above. 

Over the following century the company moved from bridge work to structural steel with an emphasis on high quality product over volume sales which went against broader industry trends but proved to be an adaptive strategy that led to the firm's longevity.  

Today's Champion Bridge Company can be visited at their web site or you can simply visit them - they're still at the East Sugartree address. 

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Halibut Fishing Fish Catch in Alaska circa 1950 postcard

3/8/2014

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No exaggeration here! Just as it was caught - a fine example of the halibut catch in the Alaska fisheries circa late 1940s to early 1950s.  Click on image for further postcard details.

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Exaggerated Corn AT & SF Railroad Car of Kansas Corn Albertype postcard

3/4/2014

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                         Exaggerated Corn AT & SF Railroad Car of Kansas Corn Albertype postcard

A very nice example of the exaggeration category of postcards from the early twentieth century.  Every locale, it seems, engaged in "boosterism" through the medium of the postcard - the biggest corn, celery, fish, etc. or world's longest bridge or tunnel, tallest tower and so forth. There it was for all the world to see - if they believed their eyes...

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Perfume Flower Industry Bruno Court Grasse France postcards

2/21/2014

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Slideshow of postcards issued by the Parfumerie Bruno Court, Grasse France, circa early 1900s

Grasse on the Cote D'Azur, France, is known as the world perfume capital.  With its beginnings in the late 18th century it grew as a leading maker of scented perfumes based on the abundant natural flowers that were grown in the surrounding region.


Parfumerie Bruno Court was one of the perfume-making businesses in Grasse, established in 1812 to make essential oils and scented fragrances.  During the course of the nineteenth century Bruno Court competed with some 80 other perfume businesses in Grasse, mostly family-owned. 


As these postcards depict, production was labor intensive, drawing upon female labor in particular for flower picking in the fields and sorting and packing at the perfume factories where most often they appear to be supervised by men.


The Parfumerie Bruno Court postcards evoke an earlier age of craft production where there was still a high degree of handmade or craft work with few machines and a high degree of women's labor involved.


Around the time Bruno Court published these postcards for the tourist trade and advertising purposes in the early twentieth century, synthetic aromatic materials began to compete with the natural fragrances produced by companies like Bruno Court.  After World War II, the production costs of natural fragrances were too high for the industry to meet the price expectations of consumers in the rapidly expanding mass market for perfumes. 


The loss of competitiveness meant the end for many natural fragrance perfume companies as synthetics expanded market share.  In 1964, The Mane Perfume company acquired Bruno Court and the latter's name disappeared from the business although Mane continued to expand, becoming the 7th largest perfume company in global sales by the early years of the twenty first century.


Grasse continues to be known as the world's perfume capital. A network of some 60 companies employing 3,500 employees produce natural raw materials and concentrate for use in perfume manufacture.  This amounts to nearly half of French perfume manufacture and 6-7 percent of world production. Foreign investment has led to the loss of production as new owners relocated production abroad but Grasse has expanded its economic base by developing the closely-related food flavoring industry over the past few decades.
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