- Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Title:
- MacKintosh
- Creator:
- Valentine & Son's Ltd. (Dundee, Scotland and London, England)
- Publisher:
- Dundee, Scotland and London, England: Valentine & Son's Ltd.
- Date of Original:
- 1955
- Subject:
- Clans--Scotland
MacKintosh family
Tartans--Scotland
Postcards--Scotland - Location:
- United Kingdom, Scotland, Fife, 56.0004, -3.3886
- Medium:
- postcards
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Postcard (color, divided back, 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches) titled MacKintosh - The card features the clan crest and an inset depicting Forth Bridge, surrounded by the clan tartan border. No descriptive text on reverse. The Forth Bridge is one of Scotland’s major landmarks. The railway bridge was built between 1883 and 1890 by Sir John Fowler, Benjamin Baker and over 4,500 men. Considered to be an impressive feat in engineering, it was designed on the cantilever principle, and its three towers are over 100 metres high. It stretches 2.5 kilometres between the villages of South Queensferry and North Queensferry, and was opened on 4th March 1890 by Edward, Prince of Wales. Postage affixed: 1d blue Queen Elizabeth stamp. Postmarked Edinburgh, 10 Sep 1955. Card number: A813. *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 photography 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-434
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-434#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-434/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:
-
