Showing posts with label postcards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label postcards. Show all posts

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Two Louise Brooks postcards from France #2

Here are two more Louise Brooks postcards from France dating from the 1990s. The front and back of each card is depicted.





Saturday, December 19, 2015

Two Louise Brooks postcards from France #1

Here are two Louise Brooks postcards from France dating from the 1990s. The front and back of each card is depicted.




Thursday, July 24, 2014

Every picture postcard tells a story....

Every picture postcard tells a story.... For example, this French postcard was used in the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1931. The stamp, from 1926, depicts King Alexander I, also known as Alexander the Unifier, who was a prince regent of the Kingdom of Serbia and later King of Yugoslavia from 1921–34.



Thursday, June 10, 2010

Postcards to Louise Brooks for sale

A collection of postcards sent to Louise Brooks (later in her life) from the likes of actor Roddy McDowell, composer David Diamond, film historians Kevin Brownlow, John Kobal, and Richard Lamparski, and others are currently for sale on eBay. The eBay page, with many illustrations, can be found here. The asking price is $1,000.

According to the seller, these postcards were purchased from Mary Kuziak, the great-niece of Marjorie Van Tassell, who was a good friend of Louise Brooks and lived in the same apartment building in Rochester, New York.

A number of the cards are pictured on eBay (but are difficult to read), and some have interesting comments. For example, in one Kevin Brownlow writes and mentions how her book, Lulu in Hollywood, then just recently published, is selling and being "talked about" in London. In another, Richard Lamparski tells that he just spoke with actress Rose Hobart, and mentions that the actors now living at the Motion Picture Home (Viola Dana, Mary Astor, Regis Toomey) now have their own phones.


All together, it is an interesting lot. Be sure and check it out. Someday, hopefully soon, someone will edit and publish a collection of Louise Brooks letters. Until then, here is a bit of the other side of the correspondence.

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

A Russian rarity

A Russian postcard depicting Louise Brooks is for sale on eBay. The card dates to 1928! It is amazing to think that Brooks' modest fame travelled as far as the U.S.S.R. (Interestingly, the portrait of Brooks is by M.I. Boris, who before he moved to New York City was at one-time a court photographer in the Austrio-Hungarian Empire!) Also, please note: this card has been trimmed
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