22.00USD

Wonderful Viennese image of a young woman with very long hair, wearing a veil and Art Nouveau headdress and jewelry. This card was published by Kilophot, a Viennese printer that, according to MetroPostcard's very handy online publisher list was,

"an important printer of fine lithographic cards in both continuous tone and halftone. Many cards were made depicting scenes from the First World War. They later printed postcards for artists of the Wiener Werkstätte such as Moriz Jung, Karl Schwetz, and Franz Susser."

Kilophot was apparently in operation from 1914 til 1920, letting us date this card at somewhere in the mid to late 1910s.
Nice unposted condition.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

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17.00USD

Beautiful card with something between a periwinkle blue and lavender tinted ground mineral overlay background supporting a fine image of the Belle Epoque stage performer Mlle. Valfort by Monsieur Paul Boyer. Posted in 1906. A lovely card. There is a crease in the upper left hand corner.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

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where we post biographical and historical tidbits, images of cards and photographs for sale, some already sold but remembered fondly, related images of historical interest and sometimes even images of items that have not yet arrived in the shop, but that are expected to arrive soon, as well as coupon codes, links to other related sites, and more!

9.00USD

Gorgeous art card by the Baron Raimund von Ritter Wichera, published by Marcus Munk of Vienna in the early 1900s. Almost pristine. Detail is so fine. We are getting our feet wet with this first listing of a very fine Wichera image, hoping, if our customers like this one, to bring in more. Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and beginning today, when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free!

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11.00USD

How cute can a kid be? Beautiful costume. Very nice card.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.
Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and beginning today, when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free!

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11.00USD

Charming image. Hand tinted card, posted in 1912, of a lovely young woman with hair bound in what was a common style during the Art Nouveau period. On the reverse side of this card you will notice the printed phrase, " Papier Radium Brom," or Radium Bromide Paper. In 1898, the Curies discovered bromide salt of uranium. It is an inorganic substance which they found easier to work with as it is more chemically stable than uranium itself. Before folks discovered its dangers, Uranium and its salts took on magical properties in the minds of the people, and it was used for "health" and decoration, (it's glowing properties) in food, clothing, toys, (shudder), and yes...postcards!(the paper having been soaked in a radium bromide solution) I haven't bothered to check if this card glows green under a black light. If I get the chance before someone snaps it up, I'll P.S, it in this listing.
Please examine our high res scans for detail. Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free!

And please come visit our brand new blog at:

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where we post biographical and historical tidbits, images of cards and photographs for sale, some already sold but remembered fondly, related images of historical interest and sometimes even images of items that have not yet arrived in the shop, but that are expected to arrive soon, as well as coupon codes, links to other related sites, and more!

9.00USD

These two charming French postcards look as if they might have been inspired by Puccini's Madama Butterfly, which is certainly possible given that Butterfly had its premiere in Milan in 1904. Whatever inspired them, they're fun and in very nice condition. The French on the first card reads something like, "Could this stranger perhaps be, Love's gallant messenger for me?" Sadly, we have to use an online translator around here, so forgive the butchery :) Please examine our high res scans for details.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free.

18.00USD

as per convo

19.00USD

Welcome to "Idols of the 1920s," where we hope to provide a special, cozy place for those of you who long to linger among the stars of the early silver screen, the hoofers and songbirds of dear old vaudeville's fading hours, a few divas of the grand opera, and of the operetta too, flappers, flappers, more flappers, and of course, and perhaps especially, those femmes fatales who with one smoldering glance can melt a heart, or break it in two. Have fun!

Published by Albrecht and Meister A.G. of Berlin (AMAG), such a wonderful image of Madge Bellamy. She was born Margaret Derden Philpott in 1899, and was just a li'l Texas gal, daughter of a professor of English (himself a graduate of Texas A and M). Madge ran away from home to New York City at the tender age of 17 to become an actress. She made a success of it too, she went from Broadway to film, and even made the transition to talkies, but in the 1940s, she got into a frassle with her lover, a married man, and shot him a little. Fortunately, he came through it alright, and when Madge was arrested at the scene she complained, "I only winged him, which is what I meant to do. Believe me, I'm a crack shot"
The ensuing scandal spelled the end of her career, apparently less as a result of the shooting, and more (during the relatively conservative 1940s), because her boyfriend had been a married man, and because, by that time, Madge was playing "family" roles in film. We don't find a lot of information on Miss Bellamy's later years, but she hung in there until 1990, when, at the age of 90, she passed away quietly. It would seem Miss Bellamy was quite a gal :) she certainly was a looker!
A very nice card in very nice, unposted condition.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Thanks to Wikipedia for their great article, from which we borrowed liberally!

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

And please come visit our blog at:

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where we post biographical and historical tidbits, images of cards and photographs for sale, some already sold but remembered fondly, related images of historical interest and sometimes even images of items that have not yet arrived in the shop, but that are expected to arrive soon, as well as coupon codes, links to other related sites, and more!

38.00USD

as per convo

12.00USD

as per convo

18.00USD

Absolutely gorgeous card. Turn of the century Belle Epoque dancer Mlle Archer, performer at the European Club in Paris, photographed in Art Nouveau attire by Walery the younger, aka Stanislaw Julian Ignacy, Count Ostrorog.

The use of grapes and grape leaves in the headdress worn here by Miss Archer, instead of the ubiquitous floral decorations more often seen, was still quite common, presumeably, (and in keeping with other images we've run across, including popular advertizing art of the time), to evoke a sense of Dionysian abandonment of the day to day world. Within those great music halls, wine and song, beauty and laughter, were surely the reigning deities, and these were the places people went to leave their cares behind. So it is fitting that Mlle. Archer should join the ranks of our Marvelous Maenads!

This image would have been taken very shortly after Walery moved to Paris and began photographing the beautiful ladies of the Paris music halls. He didn't discriminate though. The fellow photographed all sorts of acts, clowns, trick ponies, psychic dogs, he did family photos in his studio, and in the twenties was responsible for many of the wonderfully evocative covers on Paris Music Hall Magazine. (we're always on the look out for issues of that difficult to find periodical), His work was rich and wonderful. The hand-coloring was lovely, like icing on a cake.
Some wear to edges and corners.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

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19.00USD

Warning!!! Men in Tight Pants! Women lounging on pedestals! Mustaches of historic proportion! No available history, just dramatic visuals :)

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free!

And please come visit our brand new blog at:

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where we post biographical and historical tidbits, images of cards and photographs for sale, some already sold but remembered fondly, related images of historical interest and sometimes even images of items that have not yet arrived in the shop, but that are expected to arrive soon, as well as coupon codes, links to other related sites, and more!

11.00USD

Charming image. Lovely, subtle coloration. Gentle crease at bottom edge, center.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

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12.00USD

Very nice Reutlinger image of Belle Epoque stage performer Maguera, in what could be biblical, or ancient, costume. Nice posted condition with wear to edges and corners.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

And please come visit our blog at:

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14.00USD

We really love Steglitz oranotypes. Whether this is symbolic of grace, or the literal descent of a dove, or both, it's a lovely image. Minor wear to edges, corners and surface.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.
Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and beginning today, when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free!

And please come visit our brand new blog at:

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18.00USD

Here at Red Poulaine, we have a special place in our hearts for the Italian actress images of the early 1900s and into the 1920s. The quality of the portrait photography and subsequent postcard publication was particularly rich, with a flair for the dramatic and mysterious. Many of our favorites, like Anna Fougez and Nella Regini, began their careers as sciantose, a variation on the French term chanteuse, meaning female singer, but bringing to it other meanings, and implying a dark, mysterious, exotic quality that appealed to the theater going public at the time, and certainly appeals to us :) Naturally we love all of our images or we probably wouldn't purchase them for our shop, and feel an almost filial affection for the performers onto whom we project imagined personalities and traits (is that weird? :), but there is something about what seems to have been at the time a very Italian penchant for carrying the illusion of the stage and screen out into the public venue, a tendency to make even larger, the already "larger than life" persona of the theatrical personality, that we really love. So we have decided to open a new section devoted exclusively to these Italian artistes. We call it "La Bella Donna," and yes it is a bit of a play on words, given the tendency in many of these cards to focus on qualities of a "femme Fatale" type. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.

In the late 1910s and 20s, Andreina Rossi performed on both the stage and screen. We have come across many wonderful images of her, but not a lot of history. Magnificent image by Vettori of Bologna, circa 1920s.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

And please come visit our blog at:

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where we post biographical and historical tidbits, images of cards and photographs for sale, some already sold but remembered fondly, related images of historical interest and sometimes even images of items that have not yet arrived in the shop, but that are expected to arrive soon, as well as coupon codes, links to other related sites, and more!

18.00USD

Here at Red Poulaine, we have a special place in our hearts for the Italian actress images of the early 1900s and into the 1920s. The quality of the portrait photography and subsequent postcard publication was particularly rich, with a flair for the dramatic and mysterious. Many of our favorites, like Anna Fougez and Nella Regini, began their careers as sciantose, a variation on the French term chanteuse, meaning female singer, but bringing to it other meanings, and implying a dark, mysterious, exotic quality that appealed to the theater going public at the time, and certainly appeals to us :) Naturally we love all of our images or we probably wouldn't purchase them for our shop, and feel an almost filial affection for the performers onto whom we project imagined personalities and traits (is that weird? :), but there is something about what seems to have been at the time a very Italian penchant for carrying the illusion of the stage and screen out into the public venue, a tendency to make even larger, the already "larger than life" persona of the theatrical personality, that we really love. So we have decided to open a new section devoted exclusively to these Italian artistes. We call it "La Bella Donna," and yes it is a bit of a play on words, given the tendency in many of these cards to focus on qualities of a "femme Fatale" type. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.

Like the famous Italian sciantosa Adele Croce, who took the stage name Yvonne de Fleuriel, there were many Italian actresses of this period who assumed French names to enhance their romantic image. Isa Bluette, born Teresa Ferrero, in 1898, was perhaps one of these, but bluette is also an Italian term for the color cornflower blue. Born into a working class family, as a young girl Teresa, whom everyone knew as Teresina (she was small of stature), worked in a cigarette factory in Turin to put food on the table. She dreamed of becoming a famous actress and started by performing in little cafe-concerts in her home town. Apparently it was a hard, uphill road. After being heckled during a performance by a local who knew her from the factory, she made up her mind to reinvent herself and start fresh. As Isa Bluette, it wasn't long before she began to get better bookings and to rise in fame and popularity. She has been credited with bringing the "cat walk" to Italy, and that particular stage routine wherein the female performer interacts with a number of men in tux and tails in a song and dance. She was expert in the light operetta, and variety, often playing off comic male sidekicks. One such sidekick was Nuto Navarrini, with whom she performed with great success. Their partnership apparently turned to romance, a relationship viewed by the Italian people with much the same enthusiasm as that of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks back here in the USA.
But it wasn't until November of 1939, as she lay on her deathbed, that she and Nuto were finally joined together in marriage. Thousands attended her funeral.
We are very grateful to Massimiliano Ferrero for his wonderful article on Signorina Bluette, from which we gathered almost all of the information for our listing. A link to that article, in translation from the Italian, is just below.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://massim.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/isa-bluette-storia-di-una-diva-dimenticata/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Disa%2Bbluette%26newwindow%3D1%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D727%26bih%3D434

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

And please come visit our blog at:

redpoulaine.blogspot.com

where we post biographical and historical tidbits, images of cards and photographs for sale, some already sold but remembered fondly, related images of historical interest and sometimes even images of items that have not yet arrived in the shop, but that are expected to arrive soon, as well as coupon codes, links to other related sites, and more!.

11.00USD

Red Poulaine, we have a special place in our hearts for the Italian actress images of the early 1900s and into the 1920s. The quality of the portrait photography and subsequent postcard publication was particularly rich, with a flair for the dramatic and mysterious. Many of our favorites, like Anna Fougez and Nella Regini, began their careers as sciantose, a variation on the French term chanteuse, meaning female singer, but bringing to it other meanings, and implying a dark, mysterious, exotic quality that appealed to the theater going public at the time, and certainly appeals to us :) Naturally we love all of our images or we probably wouldn't purchase them for our shop, and feel an almost filial affection for the performers onto whom we project imagined personalities and traits (is that weird? :), but there is something about what seems to have been at the time a very Italian penchant for carrying the illusion of the stage and screen out into the public venue, a tendency to make even larger, the already "larger than life" persona of the theatrical personality, that we really love. So we have decided to open a new section devoted exclusively to these Italian artistes. We call it "La Bella Donna," and yes it is a bit of a play on words, given the tendency in many of these cards to focus on qualities of a "femme Fatale" type. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.

"Borellismo was a word used in Italy in the teens to describe the Lyda Borelli craze. Girls went on diets and strove to imitate her twisted postures. She was like a decadent version of the Pre-Raphaelite beauty--thin, with wavy blond hair and strange but picturesque poses. She portrayed characters who were doomed and otherworldly, often bordering on the supernatural. Her Rapsodia Satanica (1915), a compelling film about an old woman who makes a pact with the Devil for eternal youth, is an splendid introduction to this fascinating star."
Above quote from a short article at Stanford.edu. Lyda Borelli was so wonderful. If you venture into the wildwood of youtube and search for her, you will be well rewarded. Lots of beautiful clips to enjoy. Brief observation though, we managed to watch a wonderful, partially-tinted copy of Rapsodia Satanica, and Lyda Borelli was not thin! She was deliciously beautiful, her portrayal wondrously evocative, but if anything, she was downright saftig! Very nice card, but with a fair amount of wear on edges and corners, and a gentle crease, almost invisible behind the faux autograph, but definitely visible at close up in our scans.. Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

And please come visit our blog at:

redpoulaine.blogspot.com

where we post biographical and historical tidbits, images of cards and photographs for sale, some already sold but remembered fondly, related images of historical interest and sometimes even images of items that have not yet arrived in the shop, but that are expected to arrive soon, as well as coupon codes, links to other related sites, and more!

22.00USD

This charming image of a maiden in the woods, just at the moment she crosses the magical boundary of a stream, is imbued with a Fae spirit. Surely the Belle Epoque performer known as "Doll," portraying the young woman crossing the foot bridge so daintily could be a wood nymph or some similar sort of magical being. We love the way in which the magical is suggested in this image by Reutlinger, as in so many other images from this time period, without the introduction of a single truly fantastic element. These images make us feel much as we might when reading a fairy tale, that at any moment something truly marvelous will happen.

Nymphs, Naiads, Dryads, and Faerie folk so often cropped up in La Belle Époque, and Leopold Reutlinger, the Belle Époque photographer, was responsible for bringing thousands of these “fantaisies” into being. Found throughout the period from popular entertainment to commercial advertising, fantastic images by Reutlinger and others reflected a blossoming of western occult experimentation and a yearning for magic, for myth made manifest.

The very palpable embrace of antiquity, most probably reflected a turning away from the onslaught of the industrial explosion and a movement toward the real, and imagined, simplicity of earlier times. With this came a sense of the possibility of magic, and the ubiquity of images like this one, in which we wouldn't be terribly surprised to see faeries or woodland sprites cavorting about. Even more interesting, we think, is the fact that this new medium, the picture postcard, itself a product of the new technologies, made available to anyone with a penny or two the possibility of possessing such an image, one in which an obviously very real human being is pictured in a fairyland setting.

We take this mingling of the fantastic with the real for granted today, of course, but think about it for just a moment, at the turn of the 20th century, this was all entirely new. Prior to this time, fantastic photo images of human beings were seldom accessible to the common man, woman or child, and we cannot take lightly the effect of "likeness" on the human psyche. It's worth considering the effect this mass phenomenon had on society. Mass phenomenon, you wonder? Really? Absolutely. Just as an example, in the United States alone, "the official figures from the U.S. Post Office for their fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, cite 677,777,798 postcards mailed. At that time the total population of the United States was only 88,700,000!" (Thanks to emotionscards.com for their fascinating article that provided us with that factoid.)

This card was published by NPG, die Neue Photographische Gesellschaft of Berlin, and utilized the extremely effective Oranotype method for photo reproduction, developed by photographer and inventor A.G. Steglitz. Very nice condition on this one.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

And please come visit our blog at:

redpoulaine.blogspot.com

where we post biographical and historical tidbits, images of cards and photographs for sale, some already sold but remembered fondly, related images of historical interest and sometimes even images of items that have not yet arrived in the shop, but that are expected to arrive soon, as well as coupon codes, links to other related sites, and more!

19.00USD

Here at Red Poulaine, we have a special place in our hearts for the Italian actress images of the early 1900s and into the 1920s. The quality of the portrait photography and subsequent postcard publication was particularly rich, with a flair for the dramatic and mysterious. Many of our favorites, like Anna Fougez and Nella Regini, began their careers as sciantose, a variation on the French term chanteuse, meaning female singer, but bringing to it other meanings, and implying a dark, mysterious, exotic quality that appealed to the theater going public at the time, and certainly appeals to us :) Naturally we love all of our images or we probably wouldn't purchase them for our shop, and feel an almost filial affection for the performers onto whom we project imagined personalities and traits (is that weird? :), but there is something about what seems to have been at the time a very Italian penchant for carrying the illusion of the stage and screen out into the public venue, a tendency to make even larger, the already "larger than life" persona of the theatrical personality, that we really love. So we have decided to open a new section devoted exclusively to these Italian artistes. We call it "La Bella Donna," and yes it is a bit of a play on words, given the tendency in many of these cards to focus on qualities of a "femme Fatale" type. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.

Maria Jacobini, born in Rome, 1892-died, Rome, 1944, was a fortunate daughter of an aristocratic Roman family, and studied her craft, to great effect, at the prestigious Academy of Dramatic Arts. She made her debut in film, in 1910, and was given her first leading role two years later. All told, she appeared in almost 100 films, made the transition from the silents to the talkies, and is today considered "The" Diva of the Italian silent film era. Following WWI, and the slowdown of the Italian film industry, Signorina Jacobini worked primarily in the German film industry, returning a few years before her death to teach at her Alma Mater, the Academy.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

And please come visit our blog at:

redpoulaine.blogspot.com

where we post biographical and historical tidbits, images of cards and photographs for sale, some already sold but remembered fondly, related images of historical interest and sometimes even images of items that have not yet arrived in the shop, but that are expected to arrive soon, as well as coupon codes, links to other related sites, and more!