Figure 1.--Here we see two German school children in 1926. I think that they are Kindergarteners about 5-6 years old. They are probably siblongs--Jürgen and Sigrid. Sigrid wears a plaid dress, hair bow, and long black stockings. Jürgen wears a pinafore over his school outfit. He looks a little older. Notice the decorative trim. The back of the hard had no stamp box or other identifying information., only a vertical dibider and horizontal lines for the address. Click on the image to see the back.

Postcard photography was very common in the early-20th century and the backs varied substantially from country to country. . No where were the postcard photographs more common than in America. Some of the companies involved were the companies making photographic paperlike Kodak, but many more companoes purchased the paper from photographic companies like Kodak and Velox and then put on their brand name in the stamp box or other location on the back of the ard. Most of the companies listed on the stamp box page are American. Th most obvious is of course Kodak. Also included in the table are a number of European countries. The K and K Ltd. post cards were European. Ltd. ks a Btirish term for a corporation (limited liability), but it was used elsewhere in Europe. We see quite a number of these K Ltd. postcards from Germany and the small countries of central and Eastern Europe, especially the Baltics after World War I. K was presumably a German company, but we do not yet have details on the company. And knowing the country where these companies were based does not mean that was where the photogrph was taken. There were no phoographic companies in Larin Anerica so we see hem using American and European photogrphic supplies. Many Canadian companies used American supplies, but we also see Btitish suppliers. The postcard photographs without a stamp box were much more common in Europe than America. Sometimes therewas some other type of company marking. Most U.S. podtcard back photographs had the identifying stamp boxes. As the smaller European countries generally used imported German supplies, they are especially difficult to identify unless mailed and there is a postmark or stamp.

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