A happy young man out for a ride on his pony on a winter’s day. We see a house in the far distance, a row of small trees or bushes (maybe fruit trees) and in the foreground what appears to be wagon or buggy wheel ruts in the snow. The time-frame for the postcard is about 1907 – 1918 due to the AZO stamp box with all four triangles pointing up.
Divided back, unused, Real Photo Postcard. AZO stamp box, circa 1907 – 1918.
Price: $5.00
“Corey & Stewart, Fashionable Hatters and Furriers. 711 & 713 Broad Street. Newark, N. J.”
As of the date of this post, no other trade cards were found online for Corey & Stewart, which is a little surprising because they were a very successful firm. It’s another lithograph print by Bufford (new category going up) and a great design, in black on pale green, of the Roman ruins of Pompeii in the moonlight with an insert of a very fashionable couple on horseback.
The wonderfully detailed description below (we expect nothing less from the time period it was written, but thank you) is from William F. Ford’s The Industrial Interests of Newark, N. J….(1874) and reveals that Corey & Stewart was established in 1852 by James W. Corey, who was joined by James H. Stewart in 1863.
An 1870 city directory showing the “magnificent iron front building” described above.
1868 and 1869 directories show they were located at 232 Broad Street, and by 1870 at 711 – 713 Broad St. The old address is also noted in the above directory ad. Listings were found for Corey & Stewart through the year 1896.
Trade Card for Corey & Stewart, Newark, NJ. Circa 1870 – 1896.
Price: $25.00 Size: About 5 and 1/4 x 3 and 1/8″
Sources: Ford, William F. The Industrial Interests of Newark, N. J., Containing an Historical Sketch of the City…New York: Van Arsdale & Co., 1874. p.242. (Google eBook).
A. Stephen Holbrook’s Holbrook’s Newark City Directory, 1869. p. 155. (Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1989).
A. Stephen Holbrook’s Holbrook’s Newark City Directory, 1870. p. 169. (Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1989).
A. Stephen Holbrook’s Holbrook’s Newark City Directory, 1896. p. 330. (Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1989).
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Here are a bunch of old photos from someone’s family album, that have been waiting around to finally get scanned and posted. This is WWI Era (the date from the army barracks photos appears to be 7/20/18) and several show … Continue reading
Divided back, unused with writing, Real Photo Postcard. AZO stamp box. Circa 1907 – 1910.
Availability Status: SOLD
Written in pencil on the back of this Real Photo Postcard is: Gokee Farm, Petoskey Mich.” Actually, it looks more like Gekee, but records were not showing under this spelling. The postcard obviously is showing quite a bit of land, along with some farm buildings and some gorgeous horses and colts, so is possibly the land in neighboring Bear Creek Township that was owned by John B. Gokee, as verified on the 1900 Federal Census. This one was found at an antique fair in Watsonville, California.
Update: See the comment below from descendant, Sam Gokee.
Source: Year: 1900; Census Place: Bear Creek, Emmet, Michigan; Roll: 710; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 0083; FHL microfilm: 1240710 (Ancestry.com)
Here’s a gorgeous Easter postcard showing two bunnies, a rooster, and a hen inspecting a golden egg – underneath a farm scene: farmer and horses plowing a field on a beautiful day. You can see a church steeple in the distance. This rural scene is framed by a couple of pussy willow branches. What a very clever and lovely design, and the colors are just beautiful!
Divided back, embossed, unused postcard. Publisher unknown. Series or number 721. Circa 1907 – 1910s.
Price: $12.00
On the back of this card was written very lightly in pencil “Fire. ca. 1880” but this was likely done by a prior seller, rather than the original owner of the card. This would be some type of print, a lithograph one assumes, of some beautiful artwork showing a two-horse fire truck, a couple of mustachioed firemen in blue uniforms, pulling a spouting engine. The horses gallop down the road, carrying the men and fire-fighting apparatus right at the viewer. The predominant color on the card is blue-gray, but the representation comes to us as highlighted inside a red diamond shape, with the engine’s burning flames and billowing smoke overflowing outside the diamond. One of the horse’s hooves just barely appears outside the red line: something that would always be deliberately done to help get that flow-y effect. And shooting outside the diamond tableau are some star-like designs on each side of the road (streetlights?) The cloudy-looking colors around the bottom, to me give the effect of horses kicking up dust. All in all a great action scene. Plus notice how the bright yellow at the horses’ feet balances out the other bits of yellow on the card (or vice versa)…..It really seems like the more you look at this one, the more you see.
From the public domain, here’s a great video clip of one example of the real thing; taken in 1896.
Antique card, circa 1880s – 1900. Scalloped edges on three sides. Artist and publisher unknown. Size: 3 and 1/2 x 4 and 3/4.”
Price: $15.00
Trade cards, set of five. Circa 1885 – 1894. Shober & Carqueville Lithograph Co., Chicago Illinois.
Price for the set: $15.00 Size: About 2 and 3/4 x 4 and 1/4″
A set of five advertising cards put out by the Shober & Carqueville Lithograph Company of Chicago, showcasing at least one lithograph based on the artwork of London-born Sir Edwin Landseer (1802 – 1873.) Per a Wiki entry, there were fourteen Landseer children, seven of whom survived to adulthood, and all seven became artists. Edwin’s older brother Thomas (1793 or ’94 -1880) is known for having done engravings and etchings of Edwin’s work. The last image shown here, that of the man driving the horse-drawn sled, does not have any printing on the back, but all the others show the same identification as the image directly above. The top left of the majestic stag is easily verified as being from the famous oil painting by Edwin Landseer, which was done in 1851 and is called The Monarch of the Glen. (Yes, I know there was a British t.v. series, too, by this name!) If you’ve clicked on the link, you’ve found that this painting (not to mention the artist’s themselves) has had a rather fascinating story to tell. You’ll also immediately notice that the mountains and clouds in the original are missing from the trade card displayed here.
The Shober & Carqueville Lithograph Company was formed from the association of Charles Shober and Edward Carqueville. According to biographical info in volume 4 of Industrial Chicago, Carqueville was born in Posen, Prussia in 1841, coming to Chicago in 1857. He began working for Keen & Shober, where he learned the art of lithography. In 1865 he formed the Chicago Lithograph Company which operated till it was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1871. Afterwords the Charles Shober & Company was formed, with Carqueville as a partner. This name later changed to the Shober Lithograph Company, and then to the Shober & Carqueville Lithograph Company. The latter name was supposedly in place by at least 1894, when it was mentioned as the “current” name for said company in the aforementioned Industrial Chicago publication, but we see this company name as early as 1885 per Chicago city directories. From online records we see that Edward Carqueville had a number of sons to carry on the business and it appears (from the city directories again) that the company was being passed down around 1896 or so, with the 1896 directory for Edward showing the business name of Carqueville Lithograph Company, and evidence of one or more of his sons appearing in business with him. Edward Carqueville died in March of 1898.
Sources: The Monarch of the Glen. n.d. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monarch_of_the_Glen_%28painting%29 (accessed January 15, 2015).
Edwin Henry Landseer. n.d. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Henry_Landseer (accessed January 15, 2015).
Thomas Landseer. n.d. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Landseer (accessed January 15, 2015).
Industrial Chicago: The Commercial Interests, Vol. 4. Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1894. p. 487. (Google eBook)
Edward Carqueville. Find A Grave Memorial# 119060120. (Findagrave.com)
The Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago,1885. Chicago: The Chicago Directory Co. p. 292. Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989.
The Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago,1896. Chicago: The Chicago Directory Co. p. 385. Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
Here’s a great postcard with the lovely play-on-words: “For thee I pine, For thee I bal-sam.”
On the front of the card the sender wrote: “But more so for the old white horse, Em.” (Awww!) The card is addressed to: “Miss Harriet Hopkins, Salinas, California” and postmarked from Watsonville, California, on October 28, 1908.
Harriet Hopkins is possibly the Harriet that shows up in Watsonville on the Federal Census, as born West Virginia, about 1895; with parents Harry B., born Iowa about 1865 and Jane Hopkins, born England about 1875; and siblings Catherine, twin of Harriet; John, born West Virginia about 1898; and Mary, born California, about 1900. Nothing is showing in Salinas for either the 1900 or 1910. There may be a voter registration or city directory out there for 1908 but neither are showing online at this time. According to this census Harry was a farmer, but the family seems to have moved around a little. The 1900 shows they were in King City; Harry does not show up on this census, and Mary the youngest is four months old. Jane and the children are living with Samuel Hopkins (Harry’s dad), born Pennsylvania July 1825.
The West Virginia birth index shows Harriet and Catherine’s date of birth as March 15, 1895, born Winona, Fayette County, WV, and parent’s names H. F. Hopkins and Jane Ann Allport. (The middle initial is incorrect for the dad on this record.) Find A Grave shows quite a bit more about Harriet (married three times, and children) and other family info, and we could get very detailed here, but won’t due to having so many other great images to research and post. Bu what I like most about this beautiful card is the note on the front regarding the white horse, and the image it conjures up, of two friends, one has moved away, they have shared memories of a neighbor’s (or perhaps even the Hopkin’s) horse. (Your web author is crazy about animals in general, definitely about horses, but there is just something magical about a white horse. Memories of the white horse in Morgan Hill re first trip to California…of several white horses in Ireland…) In keeping with the spirit of the sender’s note, here’s a photo from the author’s collection.
Beautiful horse – Ireland, summer of 1999:
Divided back, embossed, used postcard. Postmarked October 28, 1908 from Watsonville, California. Publisher: Newman Post Card Co., Los Angeles, California. Made in Germany. Series 4182.
Price: $10.00
Sources: Year: 1900; Census Place: King, Monterey, California; Roll: 94; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 0007; FHL microfilm: 1240094. (Ancestry.com)
Year: 1910; Census Place: Watsonville, Santa Cruz, California; Roll: T624_107; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 0133; FHL microfilm: 1374120. (Ancestry.com)
Ancestry.com. West Virginia, Births Index, 1853-1969 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Find A Grave Memorial# 114666693. Web accessed November 7, 2014. (Findagrave.com)
This is a tinted postcard that was produced from a photo. The exact same photo of this street in Antofagasta, Chile was found on a black and white postcard on Flickr. (See first listing in sources below.) The image here has been altered from the original photo, though. A child that was in the foreground, and a horse on the right have been taken out of this photo. Also, ours is more cut off on the right, while the black and white image is more cut off at the bottom. This is the second time we’ve come across this type of photo altering for postcards. (See the Chinatown post.) And according to the Flickr author, from a quick online translation to English, this street name changed several times. It was Manuel Antonio Matta Street; in 1872 it was called Nuevo Mundo; in 1892 Angamos Street; and in 1917 went back to Manuel Antonio Matta Street; in 1927 don Oscar Fuenzalida, Segundo Alcalde de la Junta de Vecinos de la Municipalidad, (Google translates as Second Mayor of the Neighborhood of the Municipality) tried to have it changed back to Angamos, but the request was not approved…..There are a couple of shops on the right that we can read the names of: Pastelería Jockey Club (pastry shop) and Botica y….the rest of the shop name shows up on another postcard found online as Drogueria, so that was a pharmacy and drugstore.
What is the man in the green jacket looking for (or at)? The area in and around Antofagasta is known to be rich in minerals, perhaps he is rock hunting? As to the piles of dirt in the middle of the street: A Wikipedia entry states sewer construction was ordered in 1905 in the city of Antofagasta, and it does look like we’re seeing a couple of rectangular shaped holes that have been dug in the ground further back in the photo. Plus, notice how on the left behind the woman on the street, there is a large pipe. So, sewer construction is the best guess.
The back has some writing in pencil on the address side which appears to read “From Alf to Peer and now to en[?] Lora Petin, girl.” Anyway, this is my best guess on the last part. Though this postcard is not in the best of shape, it is the only one that I’m seeing online as of the date of this post, and prices seem to be varying wildly for old Chilean postcards.
Divided back, unused with writing. Propiedad de los Editores Mattensohn & Grimm, Valparaiso. Circa 1905 – 1915.
Availability Status: SOLD
Sources: “https://www.flickr.com/photos/76983769@N00/378539392/ (accessed October 21, 2014).
Antofagasta. n.d. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antofagasta (accessed October 21, 2014).
Atacama Desert. n.d. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_Desert (accessed October 21, 2014).
Old advertisement, circa 1907. Size including cardboard back: 2 and 3/4 x 4 and 1/2″
Price: $6.00
This is an old advertisement that someone had pasted on to a piece of cardboard, not in pristine shape due to the crease running across the middle, and I suppose due to the fact that it was pasted at all. The brand was called “As You Like It” and was made by the U.S. Horse Radish Co. of Saginaw, Michigan. As you can see it was advertised as “absolutely pure and clean, as in its manufacture and bottling it is never touched by human hands.” Going on to say that the ” ‘Peddled’ kind was generally dirty (often filthy) and adulterated with turnip and white pepper to sharpen it, with most of its pungency and flavor gone.” This particular ad can be found in the July – December 1907 Life magazine. (I love the horse.) And ten cents for a large bottle. Imagine!
Records were found from 1903 through 1912 for this company. The earliest being a U.S. Patent Office record shows an entry of “40, 207. HORSERADISH. Julius C. Vogt, Saginaw, Mich. Filed Mar. 16, 1903 AS YOU LIKE IT The words ‘As You Like It.’ Used since October 1902.” A 1904 factory inspection publication shows for April 14th, (only naming the city for the address) under the heading of “Sausage and mincemeat” for “Kinds of goods manufactured or handled” that they were employing 7 men, 4 women, and no one under age 16. The Polk’s Saginaw City Directory for 1909 has a listing as follows: “UNITED STATES HORSE RADISH CO, Wallis Craig Smith Pres, J C Vogt Vice-Pres and Genl Mngr, Emil F Vogt Sec, Otto W Vogt Treas, Mnfrs and Producers of ‘As You Like it’ Food Products, 219-223 N Water, Tels Mich 334, Val 554.” One of the 1912 references found shows a different address of 219 N. Tilden St. in Saginaw. This company sold many other products including sea foods, breakfast cereals, popcorn and peanut butter.
Reading the ad posted here brought up a funny childhood memory of Dad often making a joke that something was “untouched by human hands” if for example you were being passed something at the dinner table. But since Grandpa “Pappy” was born and raised in Saginaw, I wonder if this saying was something that had passed from father to son, having originated with the As You Like It horseradish ad. It’s possible. This brings up the idea in general of those kind of “running jokes.” What tickles us? What phrases do we hold on to for that reason, and even communicate with? And after storing up tons of phrases over the years, how many days in a row could you use only them (provided the person you’re talking to is with you on all the jokes) to communicate with? A very small portion of the sayings flying around in my household are: The defense is wrong…I wore this ridiculous thing for you… the two ‘yutes’…Does that thing come turbo-charged? Only on the floor models. (My Cousin Vinny). President Not Sure…idiocracy (the term, in general, which is never more relevant than it is today)…Now back to you, Formica…We got this guy, Not Sure…I like money, though. (Idiocracy). Your vacuum cleaner ate my pants; there was nothin’ I could do about it. (Pepsi ad with Dave Chappelle). My room was filled with long-stem roses… My butler knew exactly how I took my tea…I was not to be awoken before 10 a.m….I think of this as a temporary exile. (Celebrity? Lines Cruises). I’m outdoors you know…The clock on the wall says 3 o’clock…Everybody funny, now you funny, too…Lord, she was lovey-dovey…That don’t befront me, long as I get my money next Friday. (George Thorogood’s version of “One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer”). I see you T. Hunter (or whoever has just made a great play, or gotten a big hit. (Rod Allen, former Detroit Tiger baseball analyst). He’s got summer teeth – some are there, some are not. (Mickey Redmond, Detroit Red Wings analyst)….Along these lines, my friend and her sister have something they call “the funny list” – all the stuff over the years that they crack up over. Same friend and I crack up over two words – Donut Nation, the name of a donut shop in Los Banos, California.
But getting back around again to the subject of horseradish – check out Horseradish.org regarding the history of the root (aphrodisiac…back rub…cough syrup ingredient….growing wild in Boston by 1840…) and if you happen to be a fan of Regency Romance, you’ll be interested in the following quote, “The English, in fact, grew the pungent root at inns and coach stations, to make cordials to revive exhausted travelers.” I’m picturing myself in the future, reading a Georgette Heyer or Clare Darcy novel, at the point where the characters have had to stop at an inn (during one of those zany travel adventures they keep finding themselves in) and a cordial is handed to them. (I’m thinking, “It’s got horseradish in it.”)
Sources: Life, Vol. 50. Mitchell, John Ames (ed.) (1907) p. 702. (Google eBook)
United States. U.S. Patent Office. Official gazette of the United States Patent Office, April 28, 1903. p. 2165 (Google eBook)
State of Michigan Twenty-second Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics. Lansing, Michigan: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1905. p.115 (Google eBook)
R.L. Polk & Co.’s Saginaw City Directory, 1909. p. 948. (Google eBook)
Ice and Refrigeration Blue Book. Chicago: Nickerson and Collins Co.,1911-1912. p. 221 (Google eBook)
Horseradish History. Web accessed October 17, 2014. [http://horseradish.org/horseradish-facts/horseradish-history/]