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Mohamedan Woman

Mohamedan Woman

Howard Woody, a pioneer researcher of early German printing postcard technologies writes of this postcard that the collotype’s “light hues accent the woman’s layered costumer and create an attractive luminous image that contrasts with the muted

Sinhalese

Sinhalese

[Original] Cingalais Constipation ses Consequences Veritables Grains de Sante ou Docteur Franck, ([For] Constipation and its
consequences. Spirits beneficial to health from Doctor Franck.) [end]

An early advertising postcard for Doctor Franck's

Street Sweeper

Street Sweeper

Clifton & Co. published many studio-posed, ethnographic type postcards like this one, made from an albumen print with the firm's title and name inscribed in the negative and visible at the bottom of the frame on this court-sized card.

India

India

A standard depiction of the colony as a trunk full of raw materials, this series seems to have been started in the 1900-1910 period and persisted into the 1940s.

This postcard is postmarked Anerle, May 5, 1942 and sent to a Miss Pound, Jubilee

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