Dating and Authenticating Real Photo Postcards
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Dating and Authenticating Real Photo Postcards

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Welcome to the postcard galleries Souvenir postcards in America were popularized in when cards were produced to promote the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. From that time to the modern day, postcards have been a common way to communicate and to depict favorite scenes in places around the world. There are literally hundreds of picture postcards of Fairhaven.

They are loved by collectors not only for their images, but also because most of them are not too difficult to find and relatively inexpensive to buy. There are, of course, cards that are very rare and pricey.

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Tips for Determining When a U. Postcard was Published Most of the above guides deal with the type of postcard and the various markings and numbering system the manufacturers used, but a rough date can often be determined by the buildings, clothing, vehicles and other items in the postcard picture itself. What people wrote on the back of the card can also provide useful information This page created 25th March , last modified 25th March The text says This used, but I cannot read the date postcard has the following text The old Post Office stood on the southwest corner of Cherry and Seventh Streets and was built in It was demolished in and the site used for a new Federal building.

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The Rose Dispensary stood on the northwest corner of Cherry and Seventh Streets and the construction of it started in In the ‘s it was converted to a movie theatre and renamed the Grand Theatre. It was demolished in and the site used by Terre Haute House as a parking lot. From the dates of the buildings, the photograph used for the postcard must have been taken between , when the Grand Opera house was opened, and , when the old Post Office was demolished. Turning the card over, there are other clues to the date of this card Back of the above postcard The card has an undivided back and has the words “Post Card”.

The “undivided back” was reserved for the address and one cent domestic postage or two cent foreign postage.