Monday, January 2, 2012

Here, are some illustrations of the same picture being used more than once.
The Picture on the right is the same picture as the one on the left. At least the copyright is owned by the same printer-publisher in both cases. The copyright is held by the Detroit Photographic Company from 1901. Now one could think that, “WOW! These two postcards are from before the March 1, 1907 decision.” But, to the alert sleuth, the differences on the front might be a sign of differences on the back. On the front, both cards are by the same company, both have the same card number (5107) and the descriptions of the picture are the same (Eight miles long, Canyon walls 2600 feet in height). The locations of the copyright indicator, the size of the font, and the double line in the description are indicators that something might be amiss.
Sure enough, when you turn over the cards, they are from two different post card eras. One was printed and mailed (Oct 28, 1906) prior to March 1, 1907 and the other came after that date. As you can see the top card does not have a divided back and the warning is there: “THIS SIDE FOR THE ADDRESS”. On the bottom card, the address is to be located on the right-hand side of the card and the message can be added to the left. P.S. We can see that it took two and half days for the post card to get from Salt Lake City, Utah to Manhattan, Kansas - from 12:30 PM on October 28, 1906 to 7:30 AM on October 31st – a distance of just over 1,000 miles.

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