Postcard #45: Salon des Cent

Alfons Mucha (1860-1939), Werbeplakat fur die Ausstellang >>Salon des Cent<<, Hall de la Plume (1896), Farblithografie / Mucha Trust / bridgemanart.com

Dated and Postmarked: March 25, 2013 from Germany

Postcard #43: Vintage skiers

www.karto.fi

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Dated: March 3, 2013 from Finland

Postcard #39: University of Santa Tomas

The University of Santo Tomas
A four century old learning institution
Manila, Philippines

Copyright, 1967
IMC Press, Inc. Quezon City, Philippines

Dated: March 20, 2013
Postmarked: March 25, 2013 from The Philippines

Postcard #28: University of California

Lawrence Hall of Science
University of California

A public science center in the Berkeley Hills, overlooking the San Francisco Bay Area. The Hall is open daily, offering science and computer activities, classes, films, and lectures.

Photography: David Best

Postmarked: March 25, 2013 from California,  USA

1970s Fashion Catalog #1

This month will be dedicated to a collection of vintage reprint postcards, of fashion catalog models from 1970s

Vintage Toy Posters Collection #5

Vintage Toy Posters Collection #4

Vintage Toy Posters Collection #3

Vintage Toy Posters Collection #2

Vintage Toy Posters Collection #1

Postcard #13: 1970s Fashion Model

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Photo: none credited

Another great find at the thrift store - St. Vinny's at. This postcard is from a collection called "Catalog Woman: Mail-Order Fashion Foxes". It includes vintage reprints of 1970's fashion models. The description on the collection says:
"1970s fashion has never been so much fun! Lust after the mail-order fox of your dreams with this postcard collection featuring sexy vixens in polyester hip-huggers, baby-doll smocks, psychedelic knits, and more. Get down tonight!"

Regardless of how cheesy (and slightly perverted???) the description sounds, the collection is certainly fun. Not all the cards are as "scandalous" as this one, but I thought it was a good one to start with. Also, since I posted this collection on a postcard-swapping forum, this was the first one of the collection to be requested. It is going out to Russia soon. =)

Postcard #4: Jazz girl

Photo: Kim Anderson

Another great find at the thrift store (St. Vinny's this time)! This was inside a tattered, squished box, at the bottom of a barrel of random photo albums - If you're asking why I was fishing inside a barrel of photo albums, I will tell you that's usually where the best stuff are hidden.

Anyway, this little gem was in a collection of note cards called "Just Between Friends." On the back of the box were shown the 4 designs in the collection (1 of which is absent by the time I inherited this). To my delightful surprise, inside the box were actually 7 designs! All were of semi-vintage photos of children doing cute/ funny things. Whoever donated this must've lumped similarly styled cards together.

And thus we conclude another day of good thrift hunting and fine recycling.

This is going through Postcrossing to a lady in Russia.