Postcards A-Jumble

French (mostly) Tinted and Embelished Postcards from the Golden Age ~And a Few Other Things Thrown In~

Office Attire

I Send You These Flowers - Paris 1908

Pont Alexandre spans the Seine - Widely regarded as the most ornate, extravagant bridge in Paris.

The bridge, with its exuberant art nouveau lamps, cherubs, nymphs, and winged horses at either end, was built between 1896 and 1900. Named after Tsar Alexander III in 1892, his son Nicholas II laid the foundation stone in October 1896.

Armchair Visit to France via Vintage Postcards Continues Later as a Postscript.

Bee Stung Lips

Nasty Habit

Remembrance is Always Nice

Real Flappers

No TV, No FaceBook

Mutoscopes

Deco Gone Wild

Unbelievably Beautiful French Postcard

Anticipation

All I want for Christmas are my Two Front Teeth!

Tinted and Embelished with Silver Gilt

Beautiful Blue Eyes in a Pale Blue Dress

Mary Elizabeth - Born 1914

Woman Wearing Pearls

Sent from Paris (not mailed).

1920s Lariat Necklace, Paperclip Chain

A Family Affair

The Reutlingers were a French family of German descent. The family photographic business was founded in Paris in 1850 by Charles Reutlinger.

Butterflies by Reutlinger, Paris

Reutlinger Photo - 1908

Lovely - 1922

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Posted by Trish at 3:15 PM

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A Word from Trish

Here I am in Ohio -- thousands of miles from Paris. I don't speak French, I don't own a poodle (owned a poodle skirt once), but I love fries and that special kiss.

I'm surprised by all I don't know and how did we ever get along without our computers.

I'm on Facebook, but you'll never find me. I'm old and grey and young at heart.

The beautiful girl with the blue eyes in the blue dress is my mother. When I was a girl, this dress was wrapped in tissue upstairs in the cedar chest. I used to wander up there and peek at the gown and wish I was grown enough to wear it. It has now disappeared, but the memory remains.

P. S. The joke's on me. One of the first postcards is Norwegian!
~Trish

Not the hiccoughs!

Must Be a Can Can Girl

Folies Bergere, Walery-Paris

Walery (Photographer)

In 1900 Stanislaw Julian Ignacy, Count Ostrorog (1863-1935) moved the Walery by-line to Paris and began to specialize in the showgirls of Folies Bergere and subjects such as Mata Hari. His portraits of Josephine Baker are particularly celebrated.

“A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future."
~ Coco Chanel

Cutie

Love Letter

The Morgan Dollar

Brother, Can You Spare a Dollar?

The Comstock Lode, one of the greatest silver strikes in history, was discovered in Nevada in the late 1850s. The Treasury chose to strike the silver as dollars.

Coco Chanel - 1909

One Perfect Rose by Dorothy Parker

A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet--
One perfect rose.

I knew the language of the floweret;
"My fragile leaves," it said, "his heart enclose."
Love long has taken for his amulet
One perfect rose.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.

~ Folies Bergere

Postscript

Sent to Mademoiselle Frances Walton, Philadelphia

Message: Bordeaux, October 25, 1911. This card is a true picture of the life at the great...on the river giroride. Yours truly, Francis

Marseille - 1910

1910 antique dealer showing wares under small building (front right)

Le Temple de l'Amour - 1908

On the grounds of the Palace of Versailles.

Paris - 1908

The boulevard des Italiens is one of the four 'grands boulevards' in Paris, a chain running east west and also including boulevard de la Madeleine, Boulevard des Capucines and boulevard Montmartre. The origin of the name is the théâtre des Italiens built on it in 1783, shortly before the French Revolution (now replaced by the Opéra-Comique

Paris - 1908 - Rue de Charenton has existed since Roman times.

France - Chatel-Guyon

Excerpt from the reverse:

Written to Miss Anita Sargent, 16 rue Boissonade, Paris

"...It is not a half bad little palace. There is a casino and theatre also and a park where the waters bubble...Mother was through the other day to see me. Will return to Paris in September where I hope we may have another excursion..."

~Paris

Looking through the Eiffel Tower

Paris - Le Trocadero

Built in 1912, the first building, situated at 55-57 Avenue Raymond Poincaré quickly became a unique and privileged residence for the elite of Parisian Society. At number 59, the second and oldest part, was the residence of Alfred Nobel. It was rebuilt in 1910 in the Art Nouveau Style by the architects Charles Letrosne and Camille Garnier.

~Paris - La Madeleine et la Rue Royale

Open Cars and Buggies

The Romance of Traffic in Paris

La Rue Royale

Folies Bergere

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