This page displays color scans of 35 postcards from my collection. Cards are roughly 5.5"x3.5" except as noted. Click on any image to enlarge, then use the Back button on your browser to return. Click on a caption link for detailed information about a card, including transcriptions of written messages for most postally used cards. note links give additional information and dup links show duplicates/variants.
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Front | Back | Publisher | Number | Caption | Date | Notes | Comments |
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Detroit | 173 | Monterey Old Mission Chapel | 08/10/1901 | note | written in French (but mailed to Italy); stamp on front | ||
Detroit | 5275 | Union Square | 08/15/1902 | note | Bliss set | ||
Detroit | 5655 | Mission Dolores | dup | ||||
Detroit | 5655 | Mission Dolores | 04/23/1903 | note note note dup | Unmailed set; stamped/postmarked but not written/addressed | ||
Detroit | 5656 | Palace Hotel / Lotta Fountain | 08/07/1902 | note | |||
Detroit | 5862 | California Street Hill | 07/02/1902 | note note dup | Bliss set | ||
Detroit | 5862 | California Street Hill | 01/16/1903 | note dup | Bliss set | ||
Gruber | City Hall | note | on heavy stock; post-quake but PMC back | ||||
Livingston | 102 | A Quartette from Chinatown | note | ||||
Livingston | 105 | Fort Point and Golden Gate | 04/24/1900 | note note | dated/addressed but not postmarked; stamp missing | ||
Mitchell | 28 | Mission Dolores | 06/10/1902 | note note | |||
Mitchell | 30 | Fort Point and Golden Gate | note note dup | unrelated to later Mitchell 30 | |||
Mitchell | 50 | Cliff House and Beach | note note | ||||
Mitchell | 53 | Mission Dolores | 05/01/1902 | note note | Coelho set | ||
Mitchell | 54 | City Hall and General View | 07/09/1904 | ||||
Mitchell | 55 | Seal Rocks near Cliff House | note | ||||
Mitchell | 55 | Cliff House | 12/03/1901 | note note note | Schwedler set | ||
Mitchell | 58 | Emporium and Parrott Building | 09/04/1902 | written in French; postmark hard to read but dated on front |
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Mitchell | 107 | The Golden Gate | 12/03/1901 | note note | differs from Mitchell non-PMC 107; Schwedler set | ||
Mitchell | 108 | Bunch of California Grapes | |||||
Mitchell | California Hotel | note | album corner marks | ||||
Mitchell | Cliff House and GGP | 12/30/1901 | note note | written in German script; light creases | |||
Mitchell | 74 | Four Little Tots | 04/01/1902 | note | stamp missing; bent at center | ||
Mitchell | The California Hotel | 06/06/1902 | note note | ||||
Mitchell | Greetings from San Francisco | 07/22/1899 | note note | earliest PMC; stamp missing | |||
Mitchell | A Glimpse of Chinatown | note | |||||
Mitchell | Ferry Boat Approaching SF | note | |||||
Mitchell | Goethe-Schiller Monument | 05/26/1902 | note | Bliss set | |||
S.F. Card | 109 | Scene on Pacific Street | 03/27/1905 | note | |||
[unknown] | 2 | Seal Rocks | note | ||||
[unknown] | 10 | Sutro Baths, Hts., Cliff H. | 03/01/1901 | note note note | smaller format 5.5x3.25; Albert set | ||
[unknown] | 31 | Chinese Restaurant | note note note note dup | addressed but not mailed | |||
[unknown] | 31 | Chinese Restaurant | 10/07/1904 | note note dup | |||
[unknown] | 11 | Palace Hotel | 03/01/1901 | note note | lower left corner stained; Albert set | ||
[unknown] | 35 | Three Greatest Newspapers | 07/15/1901 | stamp missing |
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