- Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Title:
- Gordon
- Creator:
- Valentine & Son's Ltd. (Dundee, Scotland and London, England)
- Publisher:
- Dundee, Scotland and London, England: Valentine & Son's Ltd.
- Date of Original:
- 1950
- Subject:
- Clans--Scotland
Gordon family
Tartans--Scotland
Postcards--Scotland - Location:
- United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh, 55.95206, -3.19648
- Medium:
- postcards
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Postcard (color, divided back, 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches) titled Gordon - The card features the clan crest and an inset depicting East Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, surrounded by the clan tartan border. Princes Street Gardens are two adjacent public parks in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland, lying in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle. The Gardens were created in the 1820s following the long draining of the Nor Loch and building of the New Town, beginning in the 1760s. East Princes Street Gardens originated after a dispute between Edinburgh Corporation (town council) and the early New Town proprietors, among whom was the philosopher David Hume who resided in St. David Street, a side street off Princes Street. No descriptive text on reverse. Postage affixed: 6d Postmarked 5 December, 1950, Glasgow, Scotland. Card number: A1965. *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-437
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-437#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-437/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:
-
