WISCONSIN Lodi Land Sale Auction 1910 RPPC real photo postcard WI

This is a vintage REAL PHOTO postcard, postally unused, circa 1910, AZO stamp box on reverse, all arrows up. Captioned in pencil on reverse, Land Sale at Lodi (Wisconsin). X marked auction on front. Lots of action! Nice social history view.

Card publisher/photographer John H Cummings, Sullivan, Ohio

The overall condition is good or better, always check corners and edges for possible wear. As grading is subjective, please look at scan for faults/defects.

The vogue of lithographed cards caught Eastman-Kodak's attention. They issued an affordable "Folding Pocket Kodak" camera around 1906. This allowed the mass public to take black & white photographs and have them printed directly onto paper with postcard backs. Various other models of Kodak "postcard" cameras followed igniting a real photo postcard era. These cameras shared two neat features: their negatives were postcard size (the major reason why so many of these images are so clear) and they had a small thin door on the rear of their bodies that, when lifted, enabled the photographer to write an identifing caption or comment on the negative itself with an attached metal scribe. This is the reason that so many of the earlier photo cards are "one of a kind".

Early on professional photographers capitalized on the new craze and themselves captured images that they printed on the processing papers that were being made available by a number of companies at the time. They advertised their ability to make as many copies as you liked from your negatives.

As the decades passed and new technologies developed, it became even more common for commercial photographers to mass-produce and market these real photo postcards, which reached their zenith in the 1940's.

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The postcard view is now highly sought after by many institutions and individuals, as it serves as a historical record of the past. Be it the view of a town main street, the local church, school, roadside attraction or the countryside, the post card mirrors the way our parents, grandparents and even we, once lived. Captured in these olden day images are views of people in the dress of the day, often at work, at play, at school or at church, offering us a glimpse back in time to a specific moment.

With the magic of a post card take a trip down memory lane!

HISTORY MATTERS!

Snapshots of the Past

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