Dating postcards

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Most Real Photo Postcards, abbreviated RPPC, have information on their backs to help in identifying the manufacturer of the photographic paper that was used by the postcard publisher. If you can identify the paper manufacturer, you can approximate the age of the old postcard. If the postcard has a stamp box, click on one of stamp box links below. If there is no stamp box, or a generic stamp box, go to Postcards Backs. All entries on one page may be slow to load. Real Photo Postcards are photographs that are reproduced by actually developing them onto photographic paper the size and weight of Postcards, with a Postcard back. There are many Postcards that reproduce photos by various printing methods that are NOT "real photos" The best way to tell the difference is to look at the Postcard with a magnifying glass.

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This is the final instalment in my series showing you how to date your old family photographs using physical clues to determine which photographic technique was most likely used. But not all postcards were taken by professionals. Amateur photographers could buy sensitised cards on which to print their own postcards, and in , Kodak introduced a popular folding camera designed to take postcard-sized prints. Size A standard size of 5. Postmark Postcards that have been posted may have a legible postmark.

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When that original location proved too small in , the business moved to Pearl River, New York. In the s, Dexter was printing linen cards and some hand-colored ones. In more recent times, most of us know Dexter Press for its natural color postcards that came from his plant in West Nyack, New York after

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How to Date Real Photo Postcards – 1904-1920’s

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