Rare Books
Salesman's sample book of postcards
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- Description
- This postcard salesman sample book contains 353 color postcards with artistic renderings of views of Colorado and the Western United States, as well as New York City and Niagara Falls. The book's compiler is unidentified, but many of the postcards were copyrighted, and presumably published by the H.H. Tammen Company of Denver, Colorado, in the 1910s. The images primarily depict views of tourist destinations including natural scenery such as mountains, lakes, and waterfalls, landmarks, city streets and buildings, and boats and railroads, as well as the California Missions, cowboys riding at a rodeo, and portraits of Native Americans by artist L. Petersen. The postcards have printed publisher numbers and titles. The cards are pasted onto the volume's black paper sheets, with each page separated by a semi-transparent paper sheet, and arranged as 11 sets, with each section including a typed card indicating the set's title and the number of designs in stock. The sections consist of Yellowstone National Park (49 postcards on 6 pages); the Wonders of Scenic America (43 postcards on 6 pages); Beautiful California (31 postcards on 4 pages); Gems of Colorado Scenery (51 postcards on 7 pages); the Great Northwest (25 postcards on 3 pages); Niagara Falls (25 postcards on 4 pages); New York City (22 postcards on 3 pages); Denver, Colorado (25 postcards on 3 pages); Portland, Oregon (25 postcards on 3 pages); Proposed Historic American Missions (11 postcards on 2 pages); Broncho Buster Cowboys (12 postcards on 2 pages); Embossed Indians (19 postcards on 3 pages); and an untitled set of views of Denver city streets at night (15 postcards on 2 pages).
