Publisher: Mitchell
Edward H. Mitchell (b. 4/27/1867 in San Francisco, d. 10/24/1932 in Palo Alto) was a prolific postcard publisher in San Francisco from the 1890s through 1923. Mitchell was a businessman, not a photographer, so his cards use images from many sources. Mitchell's offices were at 225 Post pre-quake and at 3363 Army (now Cesar Chavez) post-quake.
Mitchell was in the postcard buisiness for decades, and unlike most postcard publishers he frequently reused a stock number, sometimes with an updated image, sometimes with a totally different image. Mitchell Variants, Cliff House from Ocean Beach and Mitchell 30 dups provide examples.
The print quality of Mitchell's later postcards is often poor, unlike his earlier cards.
Online sources:
- Wikipedia page
- biography (archived from caviews.com [Pat Hathaway Collection])
- biography by Lewis Baer (archived from thepostcard.com)
- biography by Lewis Baer at www.postcard.org (1/2005 newsletter, pp. 6ff.; same content as preceding)
- Detroit Publishing / Mitchell connection by Pauline Watkins (archived from thepostcard.com)
- overview of Mitchell's card types and printing details at (archived from metropostcard.com)
Steve's SF postcard pages:
AFS photos 1963-1964 Arnold Tennis
Arnold tennis 2005 Balloons
Color the Skies 2010 Fleet Week
Fleet Week 2003 Gates
Christo's Gates at Central Park Halloween
Halloween at Matt Kahn's Lodi Juggling
Lodi Juggling Festival 2003 Lowell Tennis
Lowell Girl's Tennis 2006 New Years
New Year's Eve 2003 Quilts
Independence Hall quilt show 2004
