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Unusual Collegiate Postcards(Post)
Postcards have long been out of vogue, and are clearly irrelevant in the age of social media. How do you even mail a postcard today? You mean there are places owned by the government that you actuall ...
Columbia University Postcards(Post)Columbia University has a rich and storied history and postcards help to tell part of the story. There were hundreds of postcards issued over the last 100 years featuring Columbia, although t ...
Linen Collegiate Postcards(Post)There is something about the use of linen for postcards that adds such a great dimension to their eye appeal. Perhaps, the subtle use of colors or the fact that the images are slightly raised off the ...
Princeton University Postcards(Post)We were inspired to write about Princeton postcards recently after exploring a delightful book titled Princeton: A Picture Postcard History of Princeton and Princeton University.This well researched ...
F. Earl Christy College Postcards(Post)F. Earl Christy was an American Artist who lived from 1882-1961. His oeuvre includes many works of art relating to early college football, with a particular emphasis on the Ivy League. This post we f ...
Yale University Postcards - A comprehensive view(Post)There were hundreds of postcards issued about Yale University over the last 100 years, although the vast majority were issued prior to the 1960s and the bulk in the early part of the 20th century whe ...
The Albertype Company - View Books and Postcards (Post)The Albertype Company was founded by Adolph Wittemann and Herman L. Wittemann in the late 1880s as a postcard and "view book" publishing company. Prior to the founding of the Albertype Company there ...
University of Pennsylvania Postcards - A Comprehensive Historical View(Post)What school has a more historical founder than the University of Pennsylvania? None. Penn dates its founding to 1740, when a plan emerged to build a Philadelphia charity school that would double ...
F. Earl Christy College Memorabilia(Post)F. Earl Christy was an American Artist who lived from 1882-1961. His oeuvre includes many works of art relating to early college football, with a particular emphasis on the Ivy League. His works were ...
Bernhardt Wall Lithography(Post)Bernhardt Wall is an illustrator and lithographer who lived from 1872 to 1956. He was born in Buffalo, New York and also lived in Texas and California. He did many illustrations and etchings of cowbo ...
Bernard Wall College Girl Illustrations(Post)These beautiful illustrations were created by Bernard Wall and feature women of the Ivy League in idyllic poses.A full-figured Cornell baseball lass:A Columbia University girl yachting:University of ...
F. Earl Christy – Ceramic & Porcelain College Collectables(Post)We have previously written about one of our favorite artists, F. Early Christy. Christy did a lot of college illustrations and work early in his career including postcards, illustrations, pillows, et ...
Ivy League College Mascots(Post)One of the best depictions of the mascots of the Ivy League schools is from this Princeton Cornell football program from 1978. The school's mascots are: - John Harvard - The Y ...