Florida, U.S, and Foreign Postcards 1930’s to 1950’s.
Largest Size: 6 x 4 in.
This lot consists of postcards from Florida, the United States, and Europe from the 1930’s to the 1950’s. There are 115 postcards, several souvenir packets, including a packet from Mardi Gras in New Orleans (1943), as well as some Valentine and Christmas cards from the early 1900’s and 13 World War II photos of American soldiers on horseback and in uniform.
The Florida batch has five colored postcards with divided backs and a real photograph of Seminole Indian children taken in the Everglades in 1943, and the U.S. batch has some postcards from the Finger Lakes, Maine, the California coast (with beautiful images of Sequoia trees), a large postcard of FDR, for a total of 33 postcards in this batch, and some postcards in this batch are unused and some have writing on the back.
The European batch has 82 postcards, including a postcard featuring a German U-boat at the safety of its home base, with a German flag flying from its deck; there are beautiful postcards from Paris, London, and other cities of Europe, 7 souvenir photo packets from Paris, Nice, Luxemburg, Brussels, and Goteborg, and a few postcards in this batch are duplicates.
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