Figure 1.--Here we see Iowa boy, Frank Morrison, who photographed in 1909. The photogrph was done with a wide white border. We are not sure why we see the white borders before we see them on commercial cards. It may have had to do with photo printing methods. Perhaps readers will have some idea about this. Some of these early wite borders seem more difuse and less precise that the commercial cards dyring the white border era.

The white border era is one of the major eras of postcad production (1915/16-30). This appears accurate enough for commercial postcards It dies not, hiweverv appear to be accurate for the family postcards that began to appear after tghe untriduction of the Kodak Bribnie 1900. We are unsure just when they began to be dome with post card backs. Some studios also began doing their portraits with postcard backs. We see these white border postcard as eaarly as 1907, but they were porbably done ealier. The stamp boxes are still useful in dating them. But not all cards had stamp boxed and in some cases the postage stamps cover them up if mailed. A good example is an Iowa boy, Frank Morrison, which we see here. He was photographed in 1909. The photogrph was done with a wide white border. We are not sure why we see the white borders before we see them on commercial cards. It may have had to do with photo printing methods. Perhaps readers will have some idea about this. Some of these early wite borders seem more difuse and less precise that the commercial cards dyring the white border era.

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