The Great Goosenecks, San Juan, Utah
=====Description Information=====
Postcard title: The Great Goosenecks, San Juan, Utah.
Publisher: American Western Enterprises, Murray, Utah, USA.
Made by Dexter Press Inc. Founder Thomas A. Dexter began printing postcards in 1934 in New York and New Jersey. The collection, donated by Tommie Dexter Reardon, daughter of the founder of the company, includes job printing files; black and white, linen finish, and chrome postcards; and a box of black and white photographs used to make the black and white postcards. A later addition includes photographs and negatives, postcard samples, framed photographs, 3-D postcards, and other assorted postcards. Rounding out the collection are photographs of the interior and exterior of the Dexter Press offices, and a scrapbook with articles, photographs, and brochures from the 1920s to the 1990s.
The business records of Dexter Press are held at The Newberry Library as part of the Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection, Chicago, Ill, USA.
Date published: Circa 1960.
Postcard period: Photochrome, 1945-Present.
Location found: Online-Ebay.
Date found: January 1, 2021.
Price paid: $0.12.
Dimension: 3 1/2 x 5 /12 in.
Notes: All scans are uploaded as archival quality at 600 dpi with lossless file type, .tiff.
Sources: "Dexter Press Inc. Records, 1934-Approximately 1992." The Newberry, Identifier: Modern.MS.Dexter, mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_files/Dexter.xml. Accessed January 5, 2021.
The Great Goosenecks, San Juan, Utah
=====Description Information=====
Postcard title: The Great Goosenecks, San Juan, Utah.
Publisher: American Western Enterprises, Murray, Utah, USA.
Made by Dexter Press Inc. Founder Thomas A. Dexter began printing postcards in 1934 in New York and New Jersey. The collection, donated by Tommie Dexter Reardon, daughter of the founder of the company, includes job printing files; black and white, linen finish, and chrome postcards; and a box of black and white photographs used to make the black and white postcards. A later addition includes photographs and negatives, postcard samples, framed photographs, 3-D postcards, and other assorted postcards. Rounding out the collection are photographs of the interior and exterior of the Dexter Press offices, and a scrapbook with articles, photographs, and brochures from the 1920s to the 1990s.
The business records of Dexter Press are held at The Newberry Library as part of the Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection, Chicago, Ill, USA.
Date published: Circa 1960.
Postcard period: Photochrome, 1945-Present.
Location found: Online-Ebay.
Date found: January 1, 2021.
Price paid: $0.12.
Dimension: 3 1/2 x 5 /12 in.
Notes: All scans are uploaded as archival quality at 600 dpi with lossless file type, .tiff.
Sources: "Dexter Press Inc. Records, 1934-Approximately 1992." The Newberry, Identifier: Modern.MS.Dexter, mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_files/Dexter.xml. Accessed January 5, 2021.