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Lazy day thoughts
Nov. 28th, 2007 07:59 pmLately I've been talking to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stardustasylum on DoA. It's gotten me thinking about some of my interests outside of dolls/anime that I don't often share as much about.
I could claim ever since I went on my first trip, I've been collecting postcards. The earliest one I can remember is a summer trip through upstate New York. Since I knew my photographic skills have and will always be extremely limited, I bought some postcards to try to immortalize the sights I enjoyed most. But I didn't start collecting vintage postcards until I moved back to New York in 1995. My parents had bought a few vintage postcards and had them displayed in a frame. I really wanted to collect something, but money was too tight to consider dolls (the item I'd wanted to collect since I was 7) while post cards were generally about $3 and took up little space.
I feel bad, at one point in time I use to know how to estimate general time period a card was from based on the wording on the back and how the picture itself was shown. Now I am mostly stuck by going with the postmark when there is one. The majority of my collection are postcards of Oberlin College. The following is just a sampling.
( Vintage Oberlin Postcards )
I also have a small collection of postcards of New Rochelle. I usually look for pictures of the north end, which are much much harder to find. New Rochelle has an interesting history and appears as a location in Ragtime (it's where the family is living at the start of the story) as well as is the dream suburb of the female love interest in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
( New Rochelle- Queen City of the Sound )
Finally, I have a tiny collection of Judaica postcards. A postcard craze swept through Europe in the early 20th Century. Jews in both Europe and the US sent one another Yiddish postcards for the New Years and other holidays. I bought a lovely collection of re-printed Yiddish postcards in the Czech Republic in 1998 and found out about Hayim Goldberg, a Polish Jew working for Jehudia publishing in Warsaw where he took pictures and added text for postcards. Amazingly, the postcard catalog survived World War II and are now part of the National Library in Warsaw. Mr. Goldberg did not.
( Yiddish Postcards )
Happy day late Birthday tosaintlex
stardustasylum on DoA. It's gotten me thinking about some of my interests outside of dolls/anime that I don't often share as much about. I could claim ever since I went on my first trip, I've been collecting postcards. The earliest one I can remember is a summer trip through upstate New York. Since I knew my photographic skills have and will always be extremely limited, I bought some postcards to try to immortalize the sights I enjoyed most. But I didn't start collecting vintage postcards until I moved back to New York in 1995. My parents had bought a few vintage postcards and had them displayed in a frame. I really wanted to collect something, but money was too tight to consider dolls (the item I'd wanted to collect since I was 7) while post cards were generally about $3 and took up little space.
I feel bad, at one point in time I use to know how to estimate general time period a card was from based on the wording on the back and how the picture itself was shown. Now I am mostly stuck by going with the postmark when there is one. The majority of my collection are postcards of Oberlin College. The following is just a sampling.
( Vintage Oberlin Postcards )
I also have a small collection of postcards of New Rochelle. I usually look for pictures of the north end, which are much much harder to find. New Rochelle has an interesting history and appears as a location in Ragtime (it's where the family is living at the start of the story) as well as is the dream suburb of the female love interest in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
( New Rochelle- Queen City of the Sound )
Finally, I have a tiny collection of Judaica postcards. A postcard craze swept through Europe in the early 20th Century. Jews in both Europe and the US sent one another Yiddish postcards for the New Years and other holidays. I bought a lovely collection of re-printed Yiddish postcards in the Czech Republic in 1998 and found out about Hayim Goldberg, a Polish Jew working for Jehudia publishing in Warsaw where he took pictures and added text for postcards. Amazingly, the postcard catalog survived World War II and are now part of the National Library in Warsaw. Mr. Goldberg did not.
( Yiddish Postcards )
Happy day late Birthday to
saintlex