Postcard Collection Finding
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Revised March 4, 2016 General Postcard Collection (GPCC) Finding Aid Description: The General Postcard Collection (GPCC) consists of sixteen boxes of picture postcards from the early twentieth century to the present day. Most are images of the Pittsburgh area but there are several boxes covering nearly every town and county in Pennsylvania. Office buildings, museums, parks, street scenes, skylines, theaters, schools, churches, factories and more are memorialized, as well as highways, rivers, bridges, tunnels, railroad stations, historical images and other less conventional scenes. Postcards have long been a popular way for businesses to advertise as well, and thus many “trade” cards are also included in the collection, from Heinz and Westinghouse to department stores, restaurants and small family businesses. Soon after the U.S. Post Office authorized their use in 1898 and coinciding with the increasing popularity of photography, postcards were a convenient, inexpensive and amusing way to send a small note along with a photo representing “home” to the recipient. They were printed and sold by postcard companies much as they are today, but anyone with a camera could also have their creations made into postcards for mailing. In this way, postcards document historical events. In addition to buildings, estates and institutions that no longer exist, there are postcards memorializing devastating floods and those that depict images of child labor or workers in mines, steel mills and glass factories. While photographs in any form are a useful source for the researcher, what makes postcards unique are often the personal messages they contain. A mother expresses concern for an ailing child, a friend hopes another will visit Pittsburgh soon, while another recommends a restaurant In which they recently ate -- postcards are not merely static images, they are poignant dynamic snapshots of a life now gone, with all of the joy and sadness that an ordinary life contains. (See also: MSS#177 Papers of Margaret Deland MSS#389 Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh MSS#573 Rose Kaplan Papers MSS#66 Papers of the McClelland Family MSS#237 Papers of William M. McKillop MSS#860 Park-Kelly Family Papers and Photographs MSS#571 Paslawsky Family Papers and Photographs MSS#301 Richard E. Rauh Papers MSS#335 Papers of Aaronel deRoy Gruber MSS#204 Papers of Bill Green Postcard Collection Inventory, Page # 2 of 82 MSS#760 Britta C. Dwyer Papers MSS#773 Dwyer Family Papers MSS#938 Grete Zacharias Papers PSS#035 Howard Etzel Photograph Collection MFF#2944 Postcard Scrapbook of Dr. B. Heintzman, 1929 Acc. 1994.0001 Acc. 1994.0255 Acc. 1994.0285 Acc. 1995.0013 Acc. 1995.0014 Acc. 1996.0024 – Pittsburgh and Kittaning, Pa. postcards Acc. 1996.0084 Acc. 1996.0155 Acc. 1997.0040 Acc. 1997.0042 – Views of Pittsburgh Acc. 1997.0065 – Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania postcards Acc. 1997.0104 – Pittsburgh and Allegheny postcard album 1902 Acc. 1997.0201 – View of Pittsburgh 1849 Acc. 1997.0228 Acc. 1999.0163 Acc. 2001.0195 Acc. 2001.0243 Acc. 2002.0022 Acc. 2003.0186 Acc. 2004.0074 Acc. 2006.0096 Acc. 2008.0126 Acc. 2009.0170 Acc. 2010.0085 Acc. 2011.0171 – Interesting Views of Pittsburgh postcard book Acc. 2011.0218 – Pittsburgh and Western Pa. Acc. 2011.0292 – Gateway Center, Point, Downtown Acc. 2014.0017) Secondary Sources: Search Postcard History Series in catalog Greetings from Pittsburgh: A Picture Postcard History/Ralph Ashworth - F159.3.P643 A84 1992 q A Pennsylvania Album: picture postcards 1900-1930/George Miller - F150.M648 long Riverlife: Postcards from the Rivers/Riverlife Task Force – HT177 .P5 P6 2002 long Postcard Collection Inventory, Page # 3 of 82 Box 1 Pittsburgh Aviaries Conservatory Aviary Churches All Saints Episcopal- Allegheny Bethany Evangelical Lutheran- East Liberty Bethel Presbyterian Calvary Episcopal – Shady/Walnut Calvary United Methodist – North Side Christ Evangelical Lutheran-East End Christ Church of the Ascension – Ellsworth & Neville Christ M.E. Church (See also acc. 1997.0205) East End Presbyterian – Waverly East Liberty Presbyterian Emory M.E. – East Liberty Epiphany – Catholic First Baptist Church -- Homestead First Christian Church-Allegheny First Evangelical Lutheran First M. E. Church - Homestead First Presbyterian – Sixth Avenue Grace Reformed – Shadyside Greek Roman Catholic-Homestead Holy Cross Greek Orthodox-Mt. Lebanon Holy Innocents- Catholic Shadyside Holy Spirit Byzantine Catholic Church-Fifth Avenue Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox- Clairton Boulevard Knoxville Baptist Church Old Trinity/Trinity - Sixth Ave. Point Breeze Presbyterian Sacred Heart Catholic – Shady and Walnut (See also, MSS#106) Second Presbyterian – Eighth Street Shadyside Presbyterian – Amberson Avenue Sixth United Presbyterian – Highland Avenue St. Andrew’s Episcopalian – Highland Park St. Anthony- Millvale St. Anthony Catholic-Troy Hill St. Augustine Roman Catholic –Lawrenceville Postcard Collection Inventory, Page # 4 of 82 St. Francis Convent Mt. Alvernia Catholic - Millvale St. Magdalene Catholic – Homestead St. Mary’s – Homestead St. Mary’s-North Side St. Mary’s Church- Third Ave and Ferry Street St. Mary’s Immaculate Heart Catholic - Polish Hill St. Mary of Mercy Congregation Greetings and Farewell Services St. Mary’s of the Mount-Mt Washington St. Nicholas- East Ohio Street St. Patrick’s Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic – 17th and Liberty St. Paul’s Cathedral Catholic - Oakland St. Peter’s Cathedral Catholic – North Side St. Peter’s Lourdes Memorial Shrine St. Peter the Apostle Catholic– Fernando St. St. Philomena Catholic Third Presbyterian – Fifth and Negley Third United Presbyterian Trinity Lutheran – North Side Trinity Episcopal United Presbyterian – Homewood Church Homes Episcopal Church Home – Penn Avenue Methodist Home – Mt. Lebanon Protestant Home for Incurables – Butler Street Reformed Presbyterian Home for the Aged Synagogues B’Nai Israel – East End Beth Shalom – Squirrel Hill Rodef Shalom – Oakland Hospitals (See also, acc. 2011.0216) Allegheny General - North Side Eye & Ear/Presbyterian/Women’s - Oakland Elizabeth Steel Magee - Oakland Falk Clinic – Oakland Homeopathic John J. Kane Male Hospital/Female Cottage Building – Pittsburgh City Home, Marshalsea Marine Hospital Postcard Collection Inventory, Page # 5 of 82 Mayview City Hospital/Pittsburgh City Home Mercy Hospital Montefiore – Oakland Passavant Pittsburgh Hospital Presbyterian - North Side Presbyterian/Eye and Ear/Children’s Shadyside South Side Hospital (See also acc. 1996.0293) St. Francis – Forty Fifth Street St. Joseph’s Veteran’s Administration – University Drive West Penn/New Western Pennsylvania Box 2 Pittsburgh Museums Carnegie Museum/Carnegie Institute – Oakland Henry Clay Frick Home – Point Breeze Historical Society of W. PA – Oakland (See also acc. 1996.0343) Observatories/Planetariums/Science Center Allegheny Observatory – North Side Photographic Refractor/Allegheny Observatory Buhl Planetarium – North Side Carnegie Science Center – North Shore Industries Aluminum Alcoa Research Laboratories Alcoa Plant – New Kensington Alcoa Building - Downtown Automobile Postcard Collection Inventory, Page # 6 of 82 Ford Motor Company Assembling Plant Breweries Duquesne Brewing Company - South Side Eberhart & Ober (E&O) - Allegheny Coal/Coke (See also acc. 2002.0028 Junction Coal Company) Anthracite Coal Mines Coal Workers Coke Works Coke Oven Electric/Nuclear/Air Brake Westinghouse Iron and Steel General Scenes Allegheny Steel – Tarentum A.M. Byers – Shotting Machine Wrought Iron Painters Iron Works Pig Iron Machine Bessemer converter Blast Furnace Carnegie Steel - 33rd Street Carrie Furnace Duquesne Works Edgar Thompson works – Braddock Eliza Furnace Homestead Carnegie Steel Works Irvin Works Carnegie-Illinois Steel Irvin Works - Dravosburg Jones and Laughlin (See also acc. 1996.0293) Mesta Machine – W. Homestead McClinic-Marshall Plant -- Rankin National Tube Works Open Hearth Furnace Pouring slag Rolling Mill Postcard Collection Inventory, Page # 7 of 82 U.S. Steel Food (See also MSS#57 Heinz Company for Pickle and Trade Cards; acc. 2014.0079 Heinz - Sealing Apple Butter; acc. 1997.0055 postcards sent by H.J. Heinz in 1918; MFF#0286 – visit to Heinz plant by Zion Literary Society of Pittsburgh; MSS#0640 for D. L. Clark Company) H.J. Heinz Company Heinz Plant Heinz Ocean Pier – Atlantic City, NJ Glass (See also acc. 1997.0295 McKee and Company; acc. 1998.0108) Flint Glass – Bakewells & Co. Glass Blowing (See also acc.1996.0101) United States Glass Co. – Glassport Locomotive American Locomotive Works – North Side Media Post-Gazette Building KDKA radio Music House of Mellor Recreation/Parks (Allegheny Park/West Park – See North Side/Allegheny (Box 11)) Exposition Park Frick Park Grandview Park – South Side Postcard Collection Inventory, Page # 8 of 82 Box 3 Pittsburgh Recreation/Parks (cont.) Highland Park (See also acc. 1995.0158) General View Entrance Entrance Totem Pole Lake Carnegie Reservoir/Water Basin Speedway Spring Stephen Foster Monument Swimming Pool Tunnel Holiday Park – South Side Lawrence Park McKinley Park - South Side Mellon Park – Shady Ave Garden Market Mellon Square -- Downtown North Park Boat and Lake House Skating Rink Postcard Collection Inventory, Page # 9 of 82 Point State Park Aerial View Block House Fort Duquesne Fountain Riverview Park - North Side Schenley Park (See also acc. 1997.0205; acc. 1995.0158) 1890 Site Plan Bigelow Monument Bridle Path Cannon Carousel East Drive General Scenes and Views Golf course Indian Spring Lake