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Milwaukee Postcard Show Sunday April 6 2014

4/4/2014

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Looking for something to do in Milwaukee this weekend?  Head out to West Allis to the Milwaukee postcard show Sunday April 6 2014 (details above) between 9 am - 4 pm. Find something to add to your collection. The thrill of the hunt is almost as good as the satisfaction of adding that new find to your album or files. What will it be this weekend?

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Laplander Ethnic Folk Costume Finnmark Norway postcard

3/17/2014

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Laplander Ethnic Folk Costume Finnmark Norway 1925 postcard

Lapland is a region largely within the Arctic that spans parts of Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia. The Sami people, earlier referred to as Lapps or Laplanders, are the historical inhabitants of this area. This postcard captures the traditional dress of Sami living in the Norwegian region of Finnmark. While Norwegians form the majority of the population on the outer islands, the population is mixed in the fjord settlements, with Sami forming the bulk of the population in the interior.  A reversal of Norwegianization policy in the 1980s has seen an official apology from the King of Norway, reparations being made to Sami, the introduction of Sami language in schools, and a revitalization of their culture.

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Camp Fire Girls Council Fire Camp Shawano Miami Valley Ohio 1950c postcard

3/14/2014

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                    Camp Fire Girls Council Fire Camp Shawano Miami Valley Ohio 1950c postcard

The Camp Fire Girls organization was created in 1910-12 as a sister organization to the Boy Scouts of America to provide girls the opportunity to participate in similar experiences their brothers, cousins, and school friends were able to enjoy in the scouts.  Camps were established for these camp fire activities across the USA with the Council Fire being one of the highlights of the Camp Fire experience. 

Today the organization, now known simply as Camp Fire since the admission of boys in 1975, describes itself as a "nonprofit youth organization focused on building self-esteem, character development, leadership skills, and social responsibility."

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Summer Camp - Camp Puh Tok Monkton Maryland 1950s postcard

3/12/2014

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                              Covered Wagon Boys Camp Puh'Tok Monkton Maryland 1950s postcard

For many, memories of summer camp in one's youth are evoked by cards such as these.  Outdoor adventures, camp fires in the evening, and talk late into the night. What boy in the 1950s wouldn't have enjoyed clambering around a covered wagon, even going for ride in it, in the age of the TV cowboy & western?

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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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Cawston Ostrich Farm South Pasadena California postcard

3/5/2014

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The Cawston Ostrich Farm was established by Edwin Cawston who in 1885 imported 50 ostriches from South Africa to start his farm in South Pasadena, California. After an early setback that saw only 18 birds survive the overland railroad trip from Galveston Texas to Pasadena, Cawston was able to breed the flock up to 100 birds. 

By the early 1900s, the Cawston Ostrich Farm had grown into a major tourist attraction, combining the exotic with a short trolley ride to and from downtown Los Angeles. A slew of postcard views ensued, permitting visitors to share their day at the farm with those who stayed at home. 

While at the farm visitors could ride on the back of ostriches, take a ride in an ostrich drawn carriage, or, as shown above, watch an ostrich race.  At the store that was linked to an ostrich product factory on the property, visitors could purchase ostrich-feathered hats, boas, capes and fans to take home as mementos of their day out with the ostriches.   

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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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Pan American China Clipper Plane Flying Boat San Francisco California postcard

2/27/2014

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                       Pan American China Clipper Plane Flying Boat San Francisco California postcard
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The China Clipper (NC14716), a four engine Martin M 130 flying boat, flew the inaugural flight for Pan American Airlines' trans Pacific service between San Francisco and Manila in The Philippines.  Taking off from Alameda CA on November 22, 1935 it island-hopped its way to Manila reaching its destination on November 29, delivering 110,000 pieces of mail along the way. 

The China Clipper service opened up a new era of travel in the Pacific, permitting faster travel both for people and mail. The British were also opening up air routes across the Pacific in the mid 1930s with flying boat service to Australia and New Zealand in the South Pacific.

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Flower Seller Marchand de Fleurs Cote D'Azur France postcard

2/22/2014

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A flower seller in traditional dress on the Cote D'Azur, France, postcard, circa 1910.

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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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