Washington Postcards
name: label: Creator
content: Washington News Co.
label: Creator
content: Buckingham, C. O.
label: Collector
content: North Carolina Museum of History
label: Names
content: Library of Congress -- 1900-1910 -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Names
content: Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.) -- 1900-1910
label: Names
content: Parrot, The (restaurant) -- ca. 1906 -- Washington (D.C.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Buildings -- 1900-1910 -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Topic
content: Restaurants -- 1900-1910
label: Topic
content: Tourist trade -- 1900-1910
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by North Carolina Museum of History, through Allen R. Hoilman, Collections Assistant in 1988 and 1989.
creator: label: Creator
content: Washington News Co.
label: Creator
content: Buckingham, C. O.
label: Collector
content: North Carolina Museum of History
setName: label: See more items in
content: Washington Postcards
bioghist: label: HIstorical Note
content: "Picture postcards became the medium of choice for informal correspondence shortly after their introduction in the first decade of the twentieth century.  Many postcards were engraved, lithographed, or otherwise mass produced.... Taken as a whole, postcards provide us with the most complete pictorial record of life in early twentieth century America...."*

The history of commercial photomechanical postcard publishing is treated in references such as: Range, Thomas E. The Book of Postcard Collecting.  New York: Dutton, 1980.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Folder
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1906
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Found in postcard collections of North Carolina Museum of History (North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources), Raleigh, North Carolina, and donated to the Smithsonian Institution, February 1988, through Allen R. Hoilman, Collections Assistant.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0413
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Picture postcards
label: Type
content: Photolithographs
label: Type
content: Photomechanical prints
label: Type
content: Reproductions
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is unarranged.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: This collection was processed by David E. Haberstich, curator, 1991.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards -- 1900-1910
label: Genre/Form
content: Picture postcards -- 1890-1910
label: Genre/Form
content: Photolithographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Photomechanical prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Reproductions
label: Genre/Form
content: Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1950
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Three picture postcards of Washington, D.C., one postmarked 1906; all are photomechanical reproductions of photographs: two color photolithographs of: (1) the Library of Congress (printed in Germany, addressed, with Christmas greeting, postmarked 1906); (2) the Lincoln Memorial (publ. Washington News Co., copyright C.O. Buckingham, no message, unmailed); and (3) a black-and-white advertising postcard of a restaurant interior ("The Parrot", no message, unmailed).