Swedish dancebands

 This kind of postcards will sure be a future collectors item! Just check their incredible outfits from the 1970´s!

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Paris Pittoresque

A wonderful series of old postcards from Paris around 1900

In December 1994 I made one of the first old postcard exhibitions on the Internet and you can still find it on the same web address as then: http://www.algonet.se/~stenborg/postcard.html. Since I still have all 16 cards from this "Old Postcard Exhibition" in my collection I think it is time to show them in a little bit better quality now in January 2006! The "new" exhibition will show all 16 cards in much higher resolution and you will also find more information about each card than in 1994. Take a look at the same 16 cards on the links below!

	Specimen of California Strawberries A great example of an old postcard showing exaggerated strawberries. This is a very popular type of humorous old postcards with agricultural, fruit, vegetable or berry theme.
	Erinnerungen an den Zola Prozess - Paris 1898 From the famous Zola-Process in France. Emile Zola wrote the famous open letter "J´accuse" defending Albert Dreyfus, a French-Jewish army officer who was falsely accused of giving army secrets to the Germans. This is a German card sent from Berlin to Karlskrona, Sweden, in March 1898.
	Rotterdam. Boompjes, Batvierlijn One of my favourite cards. It´s from Rotterdam, the Netherlands and shows almost all kinds of transportation in one card. Ships, lorries, trams, cars, bicycles and much more. It is also a fine example of a postcard showing social life around 1910.
	Grüss aus Wiesbaden Greetings from Wiesbaden, Germany 1898. This is an example of the beuatiful type of cards called "Grüss-Aus" with pictorial vignettes from the years before 1900.
	Chinese Execution i Death-Cages An interesting, but not nice, postcard from China showing a type of execution in "Death-Cages" in the beginning of the century.
	World´s Colombian Exposition in Chicago 1893 This card is from World´s Colombian Exposition in Chicago 1893 celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus sailing to America. The exposition was scheduled to take place in 1892 but ran behind schedule and took place the following summer 1893.
	Hälsning från Karlskrona Greetings from Karlskrona, Sweden, 1895. This is a very early Swedish "Grüss-Aus" with beautiful pictorial vignettes.
	Stockholm - Vasagatan A very fine colored view from Stockholm, Sweden around 1905.
	Fifth Avenue, New York City A nice scenic street view from 1905. It was printed by the famous Rotograph Postcard Company, located in Broadway, New York and Chikago. It is estimated that the company published more than 60,000 different postcards.
	Zeppelin R-100 cirkling over Montreal The British airship R-100 flew from England over the Atlantic in the summer of 1930 and reached Montreal in almost 79 hours. The return trip to England two weeks later took only 59 hours.
	Expressing Washington Apples Another example of "Exaggeration postcards" from the beginning of last century. This card was sent from Washington to Stockholm, Sweden, in 1911.
	Alligator bait, on the Chagres river, Panama Canal A terrible card showing Racist Memorabilia from around 1910. Black children portrayed as "alligator bait in Panama."
	Tunnel, Pelaw-Main Railway This postcard is from the building of a railroad tunnel through the Sugarloaf hills in south east Australia. Three tunnels and two bridges was built to finish the railroad between Pelaw-Main and Hunter River in Hexham and the line was opened in 1905.
	Julhälsning från Oxelösund Chirstmas Greetings from Oxelösund, Sweden. A rare type of Swedish cards with drawn little brownies and views from different towns in Sweden.
	Robert Jäger, Barmen, 23 jahre alt A fantastic card of the 23-year old Robert Jäger from Barmen, Germany and his dog. Robert was known as "The worlds smallest mouth organ-player"
	Das Hochbahnunglück Berlin am 26. September 1908 From a tram-accident in Gleisdreieck, Berlin 1908, 18 people were killed when one of tram wagons was hit by another tram and fell 12 meters down from a bridge.