326 •(REAL PHOTO POSTCARDS)
A collection of 30 rare and interesting American photo postcards, comprised of curiousities, still lifes, extreme weather, folk art, advertising, prohibition, and more.
Including one photograph with an entire suffragette speech written into the negative; an explosion during a mountainous road construction; the rock that caused the death of Miles Monihen; a human skull and crossbones; and an advertising card for a local photographer featuring a woman's floating head. Silver prints on postcard paper, the images measuring approximately 3½x5½ inches (8.9x14 cm.), and the reverse, a few with the photographer's credit and/or captions in the negative, and less than half with handwritten captions, in pencil and in ink, on verso; many postally used. Circa 1910-30s

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