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A very important photographic innovation was about 1908 when I believe Kodak began printing snapshots on paper with a post card back. There are some photo postcards that appeared a few years earlier. We note some as eaely as 1901 made by Fleet. AZO began in 1904. The companies involved and the printing details can be used to date these postcards, even when they were not postally used. These are reallu snapshots printed with a post-card mailing back. We believe these postcards were primarily produced from one's snapshots, but some photographic studios also offered to print portraits as postcards. Given the cost, however, the snapshot postcards are more common. These post-card snap shots prpved emensely popular as parents sent their snap shoys on to relatives as penny post cards. We note these post cards more in American athan Europe. This was very popular in the early 20th century, but declined in popularity during the 1930s when people more commonly began to include several snapshots in a letter rather than sending one as a postcard. We are not sure if anyone now prints snapshots as postcards. "A HBC reader asks, "Do you know of companies which exist now that will take photos and create postcards?"
A very important innovation was about 1908 when I believe Kodak began printing snapshots on paper with a post card back. These are really snapshots printed with a post-card mailing back. Some HBC readers are a little confused as to what "real photo" postcards are. Here we are talking about actual photographs on photographic paper and not commercial postcards with images like magazines printed in large numbers. It is relatively easy to identify real photo postcards. A close examination of the image with even a basic maginifying glass can reveal the difference. Printed posr cards like magazine an newspaper images are made up of little dots. Actual photographic images are solid without those little dots (unless subjected to massive magnification).
Dating photopostcards is an art, but is somewhat easier than dating studio portraits as the date of studio operatioins is often not known. Most of the photo postcards that we have noted date from 1908. There are some photo postcards that appeared a few years earlier. We note some as eaely as 1901. The companies involved and the printing details can be used to date these postcards, even when they were not postally used. These indentifying marks on the back are normally found stampbox corner. They identify the manufacturer of the photographic paper. You can approximate the age of the Real Photo by knowing when the paper manufacturer was in business. Here the format of the box can help to focus in on the chronology.
We believe these postcards were primarily produced from one's snapshots, but some photographic studios also offered to print portraits as postcards. Given the cost, however, the snapshot postcards are more common.
These post-card snap shots prpved emensely popular as parents sent their snap shoys on to relatives as penny post cards. We note these post cards more in American athan Europe. This was very popular in the early 20th century, but declined in popularity during the 1930s when people more commonly began to include several snapshots in a letter rather than sending one as a postcard. This also helped protect the images. As a result, many of tghese cards surviving today are postally unused.
We are not sure if anyone now prints snapshots as postcards. "A HBC reader asks, "Do you know of companies which exist now that will take photos and create postcards?"
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