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French Post Card
Luxe 23
1900-1910
87 x 135 mm


French Post Card
Luxe 23
1900-1910
87 x 135 mm


French Post Card
Luxe 23
1900-1910
87 x 135 mm


French Post Card
1910-1920
88 x 116 mm


French Post Card
1910-1920
78 x 135 mm


French Post Card
Corona 142

Only one that is actually a Post Card
1920s
88 x 137 mm
 

 


Lizzie McCall
Cartes d' Visite
1880s
64 x 115 mm

 


Gordon
Cartes d' Visite
1880s
64 x 115 mm

 
 


Lizzie Webster
Cartes d' Visite
1880s
64 x 115 mm

 


Emmie Young
Cartes d' Visite
1880s
64 x 115 mm

 
 


Pauline Markham
Cartes d' Visite
1880s
64 x 115 mm

 


E.Hanley
Cartes d' Visite
1880s
64 x 115 mm

 
 


Mary Walden
Our Knocker Cigar Card
1890s
Entire card is photo
57 x 115 mm

 


Bertha Ricci
Our Knocker Cigar Card
1890s
Entire card is photo
57 x 115 mm

 
 


Navy Tobacco Card
Entire card is photo
Reverse shown on right
1880s
57 x 110 mm

 


Navy Tobacco Card
Reverse

57 x 110 mm

 
 


Jennie Joyce
Red Cross Tobacco Card
Reverse shown below
Color Litho
1880s
57 x 112 mm

 


Grace Henderson
Red Cross Tobacco Card
Reverse shown below
Color Litho
1880s
57 x 112 mm

 
 


Amy Williamson
Red Cross Tobacco Card
Color Litho
1880s
Reverse shown below
57 x 112 mm

 


Helen Bertram
Red Cross Tobacco Card
Color Litho
1880s
Reverse shown below
57 x 112 mm

 
 


Red Cross Tobacco Card
 Reverse
57 x 112 mm

 

 Vintage Risque Card Photographs/Cards

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French Postcards
A majority of nude postcards were called postcards because of the size. They were never meant to be postally sent. It was illegal.

The nudes were marketed in a monthly magazine called the "La Beaute". They targeted artists looking for poses. Each issue contained 75 nude images which could be ordered by mail, in the form of postcards, hand-tinted or sepia toned. While the photo reproduced in the magazine was lightly retouched, the postcards sent to the home address were complete. Of course, not only artists took advantage of this means of obtaining nude images. There were street dealers, tobacco shops, and a variety of other means of marketing to  tourists. County fairs and carnivals is where teenagers were able to get risque photos.  Barkers would trade a nudie photo for the stuffed animal a lad won.

Cartes d'visite
 

 

Tobacco/Cigarette Cards
Cards used to stiffen the pack.  Large variety of cards developed.  First baseball cards.  Risque subjects quite popular.  Individual ladies collected just as baseball cards.  Many were actresses of the day.  Popularized early soft porn. Cartes d'visite size.

This Collection

All these are original and vintage.  All are real photographs except for the last four which are photo lithographs the sort that immediately preceded the dot screened photo reproduction process.

 

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