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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 Text not finished *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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