- Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Title:
- Buchanan
- Creator:
- Valentine & Son's Ltd. (Dundee, Scotland and London, England)
- Publisher:
- Dundee, Scotland and London, England: Valentine & Son's Ltd.
- Date of Original:
- 1957
- Subject:
- Clans--Scotland
Buchanan family
Tartans--Scotland
Postcards--Scotland - Location:
- United Kingdom, Scotland, West Dumbartonshire/Argyll and Bute/Stirling, 56.083333, -4.566667
- Medium:
- postcards
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Postcard (color, divided back, 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches) titled Buchanan - The card features the clan crest and an inset depicting the Head of Loch Lomond, looking north, surrounded by the clan tartan border. Loch Lomond (Lake of the Elms) is a freshwater Scottish loch which crosses the Highland Boundary Fault, often considered the boundary between the lowlands of Central Scotland and the Highlands The loch is surrounded by hills, including Ben Lomond on the eastern shore, which is 974 metres (3,196 ft) in height and the most southerly of the Scottish Munro peaks. No descriptive text on reverse. Postage affixed: 2 1/2d Queen Elizabeth stamp. Postmarked 9 Aug 1957 Arrochar, Scotland. Card number: A1611. *Note: The Valentine Company, a lithographic printing firm, was founded in 1825 in Dundee, Scotland by John Valentine. His son James became an early pioneer of hotography and by the 1860’s his work was being reproduced by the Valentine Company as prints and stereo-views. In 1880 Valentine began producing Christmas cards and by 1896 they began printing postcards. Up until 1882 they had only published views of Scotland. Colourtone cards were issued in the 1930’s and printed at tinted halftones. They continue using lithographic dots of fawn rather than yellow, and their blues and reds tend to be distinct. They are distinguished by thick Tartan patterned borders with symbolic elements added.
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-431
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-431#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-431/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 postcard : col. ill.
- Original Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System
- Rights:
-
