tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23784813926879944782024-03-13T08:02:50.681-07:00Marilyn Stern's Postcard Blogmarilynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10748670908565839493noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2378481392687994478.post-60526127394962175632021-11-16T09:53:00.004-08:002022-06-07T16:51:37.138-07:00Postcards From Molly Bloom page layouts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Here are some tentative page layouts for my upcoming book <i>Postcards From Molly Bloom.</i></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As a postcard collector for over 40 years, I’ve collected many topics. But perhaps the most fun was finding and assembling postcards that illustrate the famous ending of Molly Bloom’s interior monologue from <i>Ulysses, </i>published in book form in 1922. So specific are some of these images — like a sleepy mule in Gibraltar or a night boat leaving the quay at Algeciras, or a multitude of women sporting a white or red rose in their hair — that I came to suspect postcards were the inspiration for some of Joyce’s passages. After all, he and his wife Nora, the inspiration for Molly, lived in exile when he was writing <i>Ulysses </i>1914-1921, and both were prolific correspondents. It was the golden age of postcards, and certainly James and Nora must have written and received many, I surmised. </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In fact, I’ve since learned that James Joyce sent at least 887 postcards in his lifetime. These are all catalogued and most are accessible in archives in the US and Ireland and elsewhere. </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Postcards from Molly Bloom -- </i>my collection and hopefully soon to be a book -- are not Joyce’s actual postcards, but rather cards from the early 20th century that pictorially mirror the stream of thoughts of Molly Bloom that end <i>Ulysses:</i> Molly’s rambling and randy musings as she tries to fall asleep, recalling her childhood in Gibraltar where she was a “flower of the mountain,” and the day Leopold Bloom proposed, with Molly’s cascade of yeses. </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <i>Ulysses </i>is considered one of the densest and least accessible books of modern times (second perhaps only to Joyce’s <i>Finnegan’s Wake</i>). 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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Trade cards were widely distributed advertising from the late 1870s to about 1900. This collection features African Americans, and some non-American people of color. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">By today's standards, many are offensively racist. But they offer a fascinating glimpse into the social morés and budding consumerism of the time. Black Americans, just two to three decades after emancipation, were becoming part of the consumer society, which itself was just developing in earnest. The advertiser's challenge was how to target them as customers while also appealing to the broader white market. Humor was often a solution, </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">based </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">mainly</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> on racial stereotypes</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">. But were black Americans laughing -- or seething?</span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Printed in dazzling color via the </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">new </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">chromolithography, these trade cards were coveted and collected in albums. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">They're even more collectible today, and can be found at postcard shows or online from vintage postcard dealers.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Three very different professions available to African American men in the late 1800s.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Professions for African American women were more limited. Black servants, maids and nannies were the most common female roles shown on trade cards.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">As for product image: The monster dough is an early form of exaggeration that became very popular in 20th century postcards.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">A common obsession in early advertising was the permanence of black skin. Cringe-worthy today, this was a standard trope at the time and a source of humor. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: orange;"><a href="http://fond-regards.blogspot.com/2018/02/cakewalk-dance-craze-in-postcards.html">Cakewalk: A Dance Craze in Postcards</a></span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: orange;"><a href="http://fond-regards.blogspot.com/2014/09/through-lens-darkly.html" target="_blank">Through a Lens Darkly</a> film review</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: orange;">For more postcard posts by me & others visit</span><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York City's </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Metropolitan-Postcard-Club-of-New-York-City-123532754389749/" target="_blank">Facebook page</a></span></span><br />
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<br />marilynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10748670908565839493noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2378481392687994478.post-50023425395246330062018-02-16T10:38:00.000-08:002018-02-23T18:21:36.132-08:00Cakewalk: A Dance Craze in PostcardsHere's an article of mine about Cakewalk, the African American satirical dance born on plantations and spread around the world. It was published in the Sept/Oct 2016 newsletter of the Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York City, and was based on a long interview with Bill and Sally Sommers. Bill is an avid collector, especially of African American dance postcards and memorabilia, and Sally is a PhD dance historian with expertise in 19th to early 20th century African American dance.<br />
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marilynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10748670908565839493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2378481392687994478.post-5297222204928298402016-01-14T10:03:00.004-08:002021-11-15T17:46:05.879-08:0025-cent finds from Metropolitan Postcard Club of NYC<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Here are some 25-cent treasures I found at this month's meeting of the Metropolitan Postcard Club of NYC. You don't need deep pockets to collect postcards!</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">"Tree growing from old Sugar Estate Chimney, Burlington, Port Antonio... Greetings from Jamaica." There's surely a metaphor here: The chimney a remnant of slavery and the tree the new life overtaking it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cyanotypes are a form of Real Photo Post Card (RPPC). Not terribly rare, but much less common than the black & white silver print card. Fun to find. The cyanotype required fewer & less toxic chemicals to develop, and were often -- if not mostly -- </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">made by amateurs, as in the top & bottom card here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you want to collect them, beware of fake cyano's that were mechanically printed in blue. Online, enlarge the image to look for offset dots. At PC shows etc, bring along a magnifier.</span></div>
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A "superlative" is an ultimate: Something described "to indicate the greatest degree of a particular quality." E.g. the fastest car, the finest horse, the smallest violin, the tallest bartender. It also includes "exaggerated or hyperbolical expression of praise." E.g. The Niagara of Pennsylvania, The Daddy of Them All (re a stage coach). In my collection, I also include "only" -- ultimate uniqueness -- as well as first, oldest, newest, last, and "capitol of" or "center of." </div>
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Many collectors confuse superlative with exaggeration cards. But they are not the same. Exaggeration cards are overtly tongue-in-cheek while superlatives are for the most part factual or allegedly so. There's a gray borderline area though: Superlative parodies or wildly bodacious claims.</div>
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Part of the fun is that superlatives can apply to anything. This is why you might see me sitting for hours at one dealer's table at a show. I can find a superlative in <i>any </i>category. They're really encyclopedic -- and the encyclopedia was always my favorite book! </div>
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I can't say when I began collecting superlatives. It started unintentionally, perhaps decades ago. Once I noticed I had a bunch, it became a passion to find more, and sort them into subjects to better understand them. My collection now overflows 9 notebooks. Fair to say I might have "the largest collection of superlative postcards in the world." </div>
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marilynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10748670908565839493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2378481392687994478.post-5150608161488509722015-07-08T01:09:00.004-07:002016-01-14T10:13:57.827-08:00Oldest People <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On July 6 Susannah Mushatt Jones celebrated her 116th birthday in Brooklyn, determined by Guiness World Records to be the world's oldest living person. In honor of centenarians everywhere, here's a sampling from my Superlatives collection. Enjoy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ka-we-tah-ke-shig, oldest American, a Minnesota #Chippewa. Born 1784. Age 127 in this photo. Died at 138. According to the postcard anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Translated from Danish: "#Denmark 's oldest woman, Ane Maria Olesen, #Vejle #Søndermark. Born March 25, 1806." Mailed July 24, 1911, making her ca. 105 years old. (Printed card)</span></div>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In fact, I’ve since learned that James Joyce sent at least 887 postcards in his lifetime. These are all catalogued and most are accessible in archives in the US and Ireland and elsewhere. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Postcards from Molly Bloom -- </i>my collection and hopefully soon to be a book -- are not Joyce’s actual postcards, but rather cards from the early 20th century that pictorially mirror the stream of thoughts of Molly Bloom that end <i>Ulysses:</i> Molly’s rambling and randy musings as she falls asleep, recalling her childhood in Gibraltar where she was a “flower of the mountain,” and the day Leopold Bloom proposed, with Molly’s cascade of yeses. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <i>Ulysses </i>is considered one of the densest and least accessible books of modern times (second only to Joyce’s <i>Finnegan’s Wake</i>). But Molly’s final passages are a delightful and easy read, all the more so when illustrated with postcards! </p>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">let me see if I can doze off 1 2 3 4 5</span> </div>
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">except an odd priest or two for his night office</span></div>
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<span face="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">what kind of flowers are those they invented like the stars</span></div>
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<span face="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">god of heaven there's nothing like nature the wild mountains</span></div>
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<span face="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">because theyre afraid of hell on account of their bad conscience</span></div>
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<span face="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">the day we were lying among the rhododendrons on Howth head</span></div>
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<span face="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">in the </span><span face="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">grey tweed suit and his straw hat</span></div>
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<span face="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I wouldnt answer first only looked out over the sea and the sky </span></div>
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<strong style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">Through a Lens Darkly: </strong><strong style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People</strong><strong style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"> </strong><span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6;">is a must-see film </span><span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">by Thomas Allen Harris</span><span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">, 10 years in the making. Released Jan 17, 2014. Premiered in NYC Aug 29, 2014. HELD OVER AT FILM FORUM, NYC, THROUGH TUES SEPT 16, 2014. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><b>Lens Darkly</b> is based on the book published in 2000 <i>Reflections in Black </i>by Deborah Willis, who also co-produced and co-wrote </span><strong style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">Lens Darkly.</strong><span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6;"> Her book is considered to be the first comprehensive history of African American photographers. One reviewer called it epic and magnificent, said it "rewrites American history." The same can surely be said of Harris and Willis's film.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">In the war he speaks of, postcards played a big role, and they take a well-deserved drubbing in the film. The ones shown are, admittedly, all too typical. In the early 20th century, in both north & south, racial stereotypes were good for marketing -- of postcards, movies, breakfast cereal, you name it. At the least, they bolstered a sense of white entitlement and superiority. At worst, they helped justify Jim Crow segregation, oppression, the reign of terror of lynchings and burnings. Yes, there were even postcards made of these horrors, sent through the mail with cheerful greetings. And these too are included in Lens Darkly, giving double entendre and deep resonance to the film's title.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">The racism in old postcards has long depressed and angered me. For the past several years, I've been on the lookout for "outliers" -- cards that portray African Americans and other people of color with dignity, or at least race neutrality. My collection is small but growing. I promise to post a sampling in this blog soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6;">The point of Lens Darkly is not that such positive images didn't exist. Rather, it is that </span><span style="line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">Americans of color must take control of their own visual representation.</span><span style="line-height: 25.6000003814697px;"> </span><span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6;">In fact, the film shows, there have been photographers of color almost since the inception of photography, though their work has sadly sunk into obscurity. This eloquent and exhaustively-researched film should help remedy this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6;">In one and a half hours, Harris and Willis's film takes on huge range and complexity. One motif is how photography has been used to both belittle and oppress, but also to empower. Many viewers will be familiar with the so-called ethnographic photos of the 19th century, and images of Africans and other "barbarians" on display at fairs. But who knew that Booker T. Washington established a photography department at Tuskegee U with a grant from </span><span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">George Eastman? Or that W.E.B. Du Bois </span><span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6;">curated an exhibit of Afro-American photography for the Paris Exposition of 1900, allowing Europeans a more accurate view of a culture hidden from white Americans? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6;">The film gives equal emphasis to such superstars as James Van Der Zee, Roy DeCarava and Gordon Parks, and little- or un-known photographers in all eras, including black women studio photographers of the 1920s(?) and LGBT fine art photographers of today.</span></div>
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Artistically inspiring. Historically enlightening. And a non-stop display of amazing photography at the extremes of ugly and beautiful. <b>Through a Lens Darkly </b>is essential viewing. It opens across the U.S. this Fall (2014). </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Detroit Photographic Co. UDB printed card.</span><br />
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Seine-fishing salmon on the Columbia River. RPPC.</div>
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