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Here are a number of references which can be used to research old antique postcards and to date vintage postcards. Many postcard history and postcard artists links are included. Also see the Canadiana and Northern Ontario Postcard Photographers pages for additional postcard references. The story of Antoine’s Moose-Yard provides additional background information on Northern Ontario life as it was more than 100 years ago.
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- Postcard Artists:
- Artist Index of late 19th c. and early 20th c. illustrators, many of whom illustrated postcards
- Bem, Elisabeth - Elisabeth Bem (1843-1914) - Russian postcard artist noted for over 300 images of children during holidays and her use of folkloric motifs
- Boileau, Philip - The Philip Boileau Collectors’ Society: Information on important Canadian postcard artist Philip Boileau, including many images.
- Boriss, Margret - Margret Boriss, a sampling
- Caspari, Gertrud - Gertrud Caspari: German children’s book illustrator and postcard artist (1873-1948). See also a biography of Caspari
- Chambi, Martin - Martin Chambi, South American photographer
- Clapsaddle, Ellen - The Art of Ellen Clapsaddle. See also Ellen H. Clapsaddle, 1865-1934
- Goodman, Maud - Maud Goodman
- Hulak, V. - V. Hulak, Ukranian folk artist and illustrator of over 350 stylized, early 20th century Ukranian postcards
- Hutaf, August - August Hutaf
- King, Hamilton - Hamilton King - Examples of “Hamilton King Girls” (pretty ladies or “glamour girls”)
- Marquez, Luis - The Postcards of Luis Marquez: Mexican folklore and history in 20th century art postcards, documented by scholar Susan Toomey Frost
- Mucha, Alphonse - Alphonse Mucha biography; the Mucha Foundation; and the Mucha Museum
- Nister, Ernest - Ernest Nister
- Nyström, Jenny - Jenny Nyström
- Outcault, Richard F. - Richard F. Outcault
- Schmucker, Samuel - Samuel L. Schmucker: America’s best postcard artist from the Golden Age of postcards (1898-1915); more information on a Schmucker exhibit; and Samuel L. Schmucker: The Discovery of His Lost Art, including a biography
- Shackleton, Kathleen - Kathleen Shackleton, produced a series of 48 postcards of Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) employees in the 1940s
- Tarrant, Margaret - Margaret Tarrant
- Vargas, Alberto - Alberto Vargas, king of the pin-up illustrators
- Vasiliev, Andrey - Andrey Vasiliev (1909-1959), Moscow postcard artist. See one of his images on this Christmas postcard page
- Wain, Louis - Catland: An Introduction to Louis Wain. See also: An exhibit chronicling how Wain’s art changed due to schizophrenia, and Wain’s World: The illustrator who changed how people view cats
- WomenIllustrators.com - Well researched site, profusely illustrated, chronicling the lives and artistic styles of such noted female postcard artists as Mabel Lucie Attwell, Frances Brundage, Clara M. Burd, Bessie Pease Gutmann, Henriette Willebeek Le Mair, Rose C. O’Neill, Ida Outhwaite and Margaret W. Tarrant
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