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Editor-in-Chief Mona Nath Technical Editor Robert McLellan Photo Editor Anil Nath :: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR   LITERATURE INVESTMENTS :: Personal Insights :: Literature Life :: Looking Both Ways :: Golden Eras :: Good Investment? - Yes! :: Buying For Tomorrow :: Good Investment? :: Profitable Portfolio! :: Unanticipated Investment :: Tomorrow's Treasure :: What Is It Worth?   CONCEPTS & RUMORS :: GM Concepts :: The Future: 70 years ago :: Annual Concepts :: Concepts — 1930s :: Fisher Body Craftsman :: GM Probes The Future :: Happy 50th Birthday Corvair! :: Diamond T :: Rolls-Royce for India's royalty :: Original Paint Chips :: Pontiac Dream Cars of 1953, 1954 & 1955 :: Wallace Wyss - Artist Profile :: America's Packard Museum :: Ford's Road Leads To Mustang :: My Super Beetle :: Citroen SM (1970) :: Unanticipated Investment :: Quality Control :: How To Decide Which Car You Should Restore :: The End of the Affair :: Printed brochures soon to be a memory? :: Don't Forget Dealer Literature :: Automotive Books :: The Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild — An Illustrated History :: GM Concepts :: Change Creates Nostalgia :: Racing (Part 1) :: Collecting Automotive Literature :: Investing in Literature :: Pre-World War II Brochures :: Showroom Postcards — 1930s through 1950s :: Ferrari SP1. More Than Unique :: Fiat :: The Making of Shelby Cars in Detail :: Unusual Postcards :: German Press Kits :: Everything Cadillac :: Plymouth Nostalgia :: Loving Mercedes-Benz Quality :: Dealer Posters :: Mercury's Glory Years :: Racing & Show Programs :: Buyer's Guide To Brochures :: 356 Porsche Literature FAKES! :: Ford Trucks :: Books And Magazines :: The Best Increase in Value the Most :: The Making of a Ford Collection :: Austins :: Cars and Literature of the 1970s :: First Impressions :: Electric Vehicles :: Goodbye Viper :: Land Rover :: Collectibles vs. Recession :: See a Classic Car Show, Take a Nostalgia Trip :: Times Are Changing... :: Lamborghini's :: Collectible Tractors :: From Boxy to Fins :: How I Met John Conlon :: One Historian Mourns the Passing of the Black and White Glossy :: Thanks Dad! :: My Story :: Review: Two Press booklets on the Rolls Phantom Drophead coupe :: Collecting for Fun and Relaxation :: Rolls-Royce and Bentley :: Packing for Shipping :: Dodge Trucks :: The Family Station Wagon :: Collecting 'Down Under' :: Owner's Manuals :: Press Kit Review :: "Buy Me a Ferrari" :: Your Literature :: MG in America :: Dealer Stamps :: Commercial Vehicles :: Ask the Man Who Owns One :: Enhance Your Collection :: The Early Books :: Triumph :: Coachbuilder's Literature :: Wolseley :: International Opportunities :: The Innovative Hudson :: Chevrolet Literature :: Buses/Engines/Fire Trucks/Tractors/Trains... :: The Schödel Collection :: Beyond the Mustang II :: Kaiser-Frazer :: Sunbeam & Sunbeam-Talbot :: The Dawn of the Auto :: Taxi Cabs, Police Cars & Emergency Vehicles :: U.S. Postwar Econocars :: Jaguar in the 1950s :: Inquiring Minds :: Exotic Dropouts :: Rare Maserati Find :: The Beautiful Brute :: Dune Buggy/ATV Escapes :: Remembering Oldsmobile :: Original Paint Chips :: Vintage Bentleys :: Trucks of the 1930s and 1940s :: BMW :: Collecting Memories :: Auto Books - 50 Years :: Imperial is Back :: Mitchel DeFrancis: Automobilia Enthusiast :: Lincoln As Art :: The Golden Age of Press Kits :: Iron Curtain Literature :: Toyota Sports :: Planning an Advertising Campaign :: Happy Halloween :: Styled — For — Tomorrow :: Automotive Archeology :: Paint, Upholstery, Data & More :: 14 Steps: From Our Shop To Your Maildrop :: Cadillac Memories :: British Luxury :: My IHC Fever :: A Collector's Story - Fifty Years and Counting :: 1907 "Washington Times" Race :: Postwar Studebaker :: The Popularity of AMC / Nash / Rambler :: Mazda Miata Memories :: 2020 'Think Tank' Results :: Letteratura Di Automobile :: Magazines Are Literature :: Camaro Fever :: Grandad's Cars :: Star Cars — Year 2020 :: Australian Auto Literature :: Jeep History :: Porsche on Parade :: David Greeney: Automobilia Collector :: Building Dreams :: Flathead V-8 Fords :: The Japanese Invasion :: Touring India :: Auto Shows :: The Buick Flashback :: Meeting Tarun Thakral :: The Mysterious Dale :: Ford Overseas :: Swedish Brothers :: Pre-War Orphans :: Pinto or Corvette? :: Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild :: Rick Lenz - 10 Years Later :: Best of Buick :: Comments on Packing :: Diamond T :: 1959+ :: AC In The News — AAA :: Getting Home Alive! :: Motorizing The Army :: Posters & Transparencies as Automotive Art :: Contemporary Automotive Photographs :: Convertible Fever :: French Auto Literature :: MoPaR :: Automobile Quarterly Collections :: History of the Ambulance :: Oddities :: The Traveling Salesman :: Ultra Luxury :: Finnish Brochures :: Postcard Paradise :: Limited Editions :: German Thoroughbreds :: Auto Galleria LUCE :: Fisher Guild Reunion :: Them VS. Us :: The Corvair Legend :: RR - World's Best Car :: Recreational Vehicles :: Datsun Z Literature :: Ford Flower Power :: News You Can Use :: Connoisseurs' Choice :: Automotive Books :: Pate's Hidden Treasure :: Every Boy's Dream :: Jeep Literature As Art :: My Beloved Hillman :: Adios Cuba :: Reprint News :: British Sports Cars :: International Customers :: Corvette: A Legend :: Automotology :: Literature In Norway :: Salvage Literature :: Volkswagen As Art :: Brass Era Literature :: Society: Auto Historians :: Pontiac Art: Insights :: Truck Literature? :: Quality Control :: Bentley :: The Exotics :: Kit Cars & Replica Cars :: Pontiacs as Art :: High Speed Pursuits :: Robert's Tips :: Honest Reprint Lit :: Literature on Lincoln :: Dealer Stamps :: Original or Fake? :: The Rolls-Royce :: Counterfeit Literature :: World of Auto Literature :: Z. Taylor Vinson :: Junichiro Hiramatsu :: Ed Whitt       February 2009 Issue   ARTICLE   Unusual Postcards By Robert McLellan   Most literature collectors include showroom postcards with their brochure collection. Automotive postcards from other sources such as museums and specialty auto makers are even rarer. Note: There are some manufacture published postcards shown here that are over 100 years old. Take a look at this sampling: Click for larger view                                                                                                                                                   The Automotive Chronicles, February 2009                 THE AUTOMOTIVE CHRONICLES 9111 Longstaff Drive, Houston, TX 77031-2711 Phone: (713) 772-3285 :: E-mail: Editor@McLellansAutomotive.com The Automotive Chronicles — since 2003   Literature for OVER 600 MAKES