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I - PUBLISHERS
Illustrated Post Card 1905-1914
520 West 84th Street, New York, NY
Published a wide variety of color halftone lithographic cards in series that were printed by Emil Pinkau in Leipzig, Saxony. Each city or location of their color card sets were assigned the same number prefix.
Their best known cards are from a very large set that captured scenes throughout the City of New York. These cards tended to use brighter than average colors and were titled in a very distinct font. Similar cards, but with more subdued writing, appeared afterwards depicting scenes from the surrounding regions such as Long Island.
In 1909 they stopped importing cards from Germany and began printing their own. A large number of black & white cards were produced in a more open halftone with some being poorly hand colored. These black & white cards were numbered consecutively.
Illustrated Post Card Co. (1907-1915)
Montreal, QC, Canada
A publishes of Canadian views in black & white and color continuous tones. Their cards were made in Germany.
Imperial Center for Nature Conservation (1930’s-1947)
Leipzig, Saxony
This animal welfare group published Natural Protection Postcards, (Natuurschutz-Postkarten) to help raise funds for their cause. Groups such as this became very popular after the National Socialists came to power as they both tied into the naturalism within German mythology. These cards were printed in halftone lithography and on paper rather than card stock.
Indiana News Co. (1909-)
Indianapolis, IN
A local publisher and distributor of postcards for the American News Company.
Alexander Adam Inglis 1881-1949
Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland
A photographer who published souvenir picture books and printed postcards. Most cards were printed in fine halftone lithography under the Ingle Series name. While most were view-cards other topics like dressed animals were also produced. Alex provided photos for the company until 1916. His son, Francis C. Inglis, who was also a photographer produced real photo cards up to his death in 1940. The family continued selling photographs and postcards until 1949.
Inland Printing Co. (1906-1908)
Spokane, WA
A publisher of regional lithographic view-cards and images of American Indians. They later moved to Walla Walla.
International Art Co. (Inter-Art Co.) 1909-1931
Red Lion Square, London, England
Published artist drawn cards depicting romantic, glamour, comic, patriotic, and other themes. Especially known for the Katchy Kid,/i> series and their cards printed during World War One. Many of these cards were printed in gravure.
Interborough News Co. (1934-1940)
252 W 52nd Street, New York, NY
A local distributor of newspapers, magazines, and postcards. Their cards covered a wide range of topics from views, to the New York World’s Fair, and the Everyday Comics postcards published by Curt Teich. In 1940 Mayor LaGuardia led a personal campaign against the companies owner, Julius Stoltz, and issued a warrant for his arrest for distributing the girlie magazine Man to Man.
International Art Publishing Co. Ltd. (1898-1914)
New York, NY
A publisher of many artist signed holiday and patriotic postcards. Published over 3000 holiday cards by Ellen H. Clapsaddle alone. They also owned the Wolf Company that also produced postcards. All their cards were printed in Germany.
International Mutoscope Reel Co. 1926-1949
New York, NY
Published halftone lithographic arcade cards of pinups and cartoons that were printed in the United States. The words A Mutoscope Card appear on the front. They also produced Mutoscopes, a type of coin operated, hand cranked motion picture machine that dominated peepshows. These were remakes of the original machines manufactured by the American Mutoscope Company that operated between 1895 and 1906. The cards they produced for arcade dispensers are not the same cards used inside the mutoscopes.
International Post Card Co. (1903-1920)
New York, NY
A publisher of lithographic and hand colored view-cards. They were made in Germany.
International Postal Card Co. (1908-1910)
Chicago, IL
Published hand colored and lithographic postcards, some of which were embossed. These cards largely covered holiday, fantasy, and comic themes, but they produced international views as well. They were manufactured in both Germany and Austria.
Island Curio Co. (1898-1930’s)
Honolulu, HI
Founded by James Steiner in 1890 as the Island Curio Store. They published view-cards of Hawaiian scenes using a number of different printers. Many of their private mail cards carry a small monochrome vignette on the tab with an Aloha Nui greeting. Noted for a large colorful series of postcards displaying local fish on a blank backdrop. Their later cards tend to be more generic in nature and of much lower quality.
Ives Process Co. (1880’s-)
550 West 26th Street, New York, NY
Manufactued color separated printing plates by means of panchromatic film and color filters for many printing houses. Cards with their name embossed into them may have been used as samples of their work and not meant for retail sale.font>
IZOGIZ 1932-1980’s
Moscow, U.S.S.R.
In 1932 the hundreds of diverse publishing houses in the Soviet Union were organized into a single monopoly under the name IZOGIZ. They produced a wide variety of products including postcards but were particular to the subjects that were covered. Most of these cards were artist drawn often commemorating historic themes of the Revolution long after they occurred. While most cards were issued for propaganda purposes, not all were blatantly so. They also reproduced many works of art. Their cards were printed lithographically with a very open halftone. There were also other specialized printing houses under their control operating under different names.
