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E - PUBLISHERS
Eagle Post Card Co. (1912-1942)
New York, NY
Published lithographic and some hand colored view-cards of the American mid-Atlantic region.
East and West Publishing Co. (1939-1941)
New York, NY
Published national view-cards in black & white photogravure. They were printed in the United States and in Germany.
Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co. 1909-
Belfast, ME with a factory in Camden, ME
One of the best known publishers of real photo postcards depicting scenes of New England and New York. Founded by photographer R. Herman Cassens in 1909, he and his staff produce over 30,000 real photo cards printed in small lots to the thousands. They captured a niche market by publishing views outside of just one local area, and by providing photo cards to retailers in small communities who could not afford the price of printed cards. In 1947 the business was sold to Alton H. Crone. He stopped producing real photo postcards in the 1950’s and began printing photochromes. By the 1960’s they had sold off all remaining stock of real photo cards, and moved to New London, NH. Because they published many generics and small town scenes that changed very slowly, they kept printing cards from the same negatives over many decades. Differing logos and papers however give some clues in providing dates. Their first distinguished logo was very large and appeared on cards published between 1913 to 1915. Similar but much smaller variations continued to be placed onto their cards into the late 1930’s until they just started printing out their name. By the 1940’s they began using Kodak paper without the company name.
East Hampton News Co. (1920’s-1930’s)
East Hampton, NY
A local publisher and distributor of postcards for the American News Company depicting scenes from Long Island’s South Fork.
Edwards & Broughton Co. (1892-1985)
Raleigh, NC
A publisher and printer of books and other lithographic materials. They were an important printing source for local businesses and for subjects on local history. They printed a set of linen postcards for the National Trailways Bus System in the 1940’s.
Theodor Eismann (Theochrome) (1908-1914)
New York, NY and Leipzig, Saxony
A fine art printing and publishing house that produced halftone lithographic postcards that were printed in the United States and in Germany. These include view-cards, comics, and greetings.
C. Eleftheroudakis 1904-
Athens, Greece
An important publisher of books, travel guides, maps and postcards. They captured many ancient historic sights on continuous toned lithographic view-cards. They currently run a bookstore chain.
Elite Post Card Co. (1908-1914)
Kansas City, MO
A publisher of view-cards depicting the American mid-West.
Ellis 1921-1940’s
Arlington, WA
J. Boyd Ellis and his son Clifford were both photographers who roamed the State of Washington in search of views. Together they produced about 5,000 different real photo postcards.
Rachael Robinson Elmer 1914-1916
Burlington, VT
A painter and commercial artist. Volland published twelve of her cityscapes in 1914 as part of their Art Lovers postcard series. Elmer published woodcut reproductions of six more New York City scenes as postcards for the Association of Woman Painters, Artists & Sculptures biennial celebration in 1916.
A.W. Elson & Co. (1894-1925)
146 Olive Street, Belmont, MA
A manufacturer of photogravure plates and prints. Their subjects were generally confined to historic scenes and art reproductions. Their art cards were a little smaller than standard postcard size as they were produced for collecting and not for mailing, and they lack the usual postal graphics on their backs. Many of these cards were eventually mailed anyway as if they were postcards. Elson also produced a great number of carbon prints.
E. P. & Co. A.G.L. (1895-1945)
Leipzig, Saxony
A publisher of artist signed postcards that were mostly reproduced in photographic form. They are well known for a large military set of scenes from the First World War and some earlier comflicts. Many of these compositions are very dark or are of nightscapes.
Sallo Epstein & Co. (1897-1905)
Durban, South Africa
An important ublisher of black & white and hand colored view-cards and types of southern Africa. Many of these were everyday scenes.
Karl Ermisch (1934-1943)
Berchtesgarden, Bavaria
A publisher of finely printed monochrome and hand colored view-cards.
Ess & Ess Photo Co. (1907-1930)
New York, NY
Published view-cards of the American mid-Atlantic region in black & white and in sepia.
Max Ettlinger & Co. Ltd. 1901-1916
6 East 17th Street, New York, NY and London, England
Published a variety of card types, many of them real photo cards. Some of the real photos were hand colored and carried trade names of Lamanet, Photolet, and Photocolour. While most of the color work was printed in Germany and Prussia, a set of hand colored brown toned art cards were made in France. Their cards were generally issued under the Royal Series name.
European Post Card Co. (1920’s)
New York, NY
Published color and black & white lithographic cards in an open halftone. In addition to the many view-cards of the New York region they produced views of Provence Quebec in Canada.
Exhibit Supply Co. 1921-1970
Chicago, IL
Printed cards to be sold from arcade machines. Their early cards from 1921-1928 have divided postcard backs, some with a brief descriptive narrative, while their later cards have blank backs. In 1927 they started printing cards in various strong color monotones. They stopped manufacturing arcade cards in 1964.
Eyre & Spottiswoode, Ltd. (1847-)
Fetter Lane, London, England
Important publishers and printers of books. They were printing Christmas cards before the inception of postcards. Their first Woodbury Series postcards consisted of art reproductions, zoo animals, military and naval themes, stage performers, and view-cards of England and Palestine. They used a unique process for printing in color gravure whose results resembled the more delicate woodburytype.
