Picture postcards
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Postcards having a pictorial image on one side, often representations of a place or works of art, upon which a message can be written, then posted.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Robert Bogdan international collection on disability, healthcare, and body modification
Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 84
Abstract:
The collection consists of five binders of materials related to people with disabilities, healthcare practices, and body modification collected by Robert Bogdan, a professor and author whose work focuses on disability studies. Materials include photographic postcards, picture postcards, photographs, pamphlets, and ephemera primarily documenting peoples in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The collection also includes materials documenting peoples in South America, the Caribbean, Pacific islands,...
Dates:
circa 1890-1969
Trude Geiringer photographs and scrapbook
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1700
Abstract:
The collection consists of gelatin silver photographic prints, photograph albums, and a scrapbook created by Austrian photographer Trude Geiringer. Albums contain studio portraits and travel photographs of Austria, the Swiss Alps, Rome, and pre-World War II Yugoslavia in regions of present-day Croatia and Slovenia. Also included is a picture postcard featuring a portrait of actor Werner Krauss. The scrapbook contains newspaper and magazine clippings of images taken by Atelier Geiringer und...
Dates:
1927–1937, undated
Alfred E. Heller collection of world's fair material
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 734
Abstract:
The collection consists of photographs, picture postcards, printed ephemera and other printed material collected by Alfred E. Heller documenting international fairs and exhibitions held around the world between 1851 and 2005. Photographs, picture postcards, and printed ephemera depict the locations and attractions of individual fairs and exhibitions, particularly those held in Europe and America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Highlights include: photographs of the...
Dates:
1851-2005
Photographs and Other Material Related to Egypt
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 2116
Abstract:
Photographs and other material related to Susannah Hays, Egypt (San Francisco: Susannah Hays, 1993) and other associated projects created from 1992 to 2008, with the bulk from the period of 1992 to 1993.
Dates:
1992-2008, bulk 1992-1993
Western postcard collection
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-3014
Scope and Contents:
The Western Postcard Collection consists of picture postcards depicting locations and scenes of the American West.
Dates:
circa 1893-2000