Sizzling Summer Western Americana Auction (August 2021)

Lot of seven real photo postcards from various towns in Oregon. Includes Burns, Bend, Coquille, Phillomath, London, Springfield, and another will ille

Includes several RPCs. General scenery and other views of Oregon. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Oregon City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collec

Lot of two postcards, one from Grubbe & McKay General Merchandise in Wilbur Oregon, the other is W.H. Staats & Co General Merchandise with a...

Lot of three different street scenes of Chamberlain South Dakota. RPCs, unwritten. Date: Country (if not USA): State: South Dakota City: Chambe

Lot of 16 postcards of Deadwood South Dakota. Three RPCs, street scenes, Franklin Hotel, bird's eye views. Date: Country (if not USA): Stat...

Lot of two unused split back postcards depicting stage coach scenes in Deadwood, South Dakota, 1876. One is a fully loaded coach with a team of four;

RPPC of "Deadwood Dick" by Black Hills Studios, Inc. He's wearing a hat with a "Days of 76" band. This is Richard Clarke, fr...

Lot of 53 postcards from the famed Corn Palace of Mitchell South Dakota. Eight years before the turn of the 20th century -1892- when Mitchell, South

Lot of 24 postcards, mostly RPCs, mostly 1920s. Needles Eye, tunnels, cliffs, roads, Lone Sentinel, etc. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Sout

Lot of 15 postcards of South Dakota street scenes, mostly RPCs. Towns include: Lemmon, Bryant, Dumont, White Rock, Menno, Elkton, Ramona, Miacano, Can

Lot of 50 postcards of Mount Rushmore. Mostly black and white real photo cards, including workers on the face of the rock and artist Gutzon Borglum.

Lot of 28 vintage postcards from South Dakota. Brookings (3); Platte (5); Mitchell (9); Custer (4); Pierre (6). Date: Country (if not USA): Stat

About 80-100 cards from South Dakota includes: Spearfish 1877; Tyndall 1914; BlackHills; Bryant; Mundo; Deadwood; Chamerlain; Pierre; and many others

Lot of 53 street scene postcards from South Dakota. Canistota (10); Bowdle (6); Hot Springs (10); Lemmon; Edgeley; Kimball; Arlington; Jamestown; Wes

Lot of 29 RPCs of South Dakota street scenes. Huron, freeman, Winner, Canton, Murdo, Madison, Hankinson, Oldham, Mt. Vernon, Watertown, Dallas, Chambe

50 or more from the Ogden area c1905-1912. About 5 rpcs. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Utah City: Ogden Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

Lot of about 60 postcards from the Great Salt Lake. Six have bags of salt attached (four of them postmarked! They made it through the mail!). Others o

Wide selection of cards circa 1905-1960 regarding Brigham Young, The Lion House, Tabernacle, and Church. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Ut

Lot of three cards from the Saltair Beach Bathing Resort, twenty minutes from Salt Lake City on the Great Salt Lake. Hippodrome and Ship Restaurant,

Collection of 25 color postcards showing sites in the state of Washington, including several shots of fishing on the Columbia River. Some are used, so

Lot of 56 novelty , advertising and cartoon postcards from the early to mid-1900's. Several beer ads, along with saloon and travel souvenir po...

Early printed photograph of the Irma Hotel in Cody, Wyoming, with a bucking bronco at center and stagecoach at far left. Possibly from Buffalo Bill&...

Lot of 2. 1) "'Hog Tying' a Buffalo, Cody, Wyo." Photo by FJ Hiscock, Cody. Divided back, not mailed. 2) "Chiefs Color Bear a...

A three-inch stack of postcards featuring Yellowstone -- a crown jewel of America's National Park System. There are bears and buffalo, geysers a...

Lot of three items: 1) 1927 souvenir folder of Yellowstone Park post cards by J. E. Haynes; 2) original carton of 50 Yellowstone Park postcards in ful

About 100 cards c1905-1960. No vintage RPCs in this group. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Wyoming City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

About 20 rpcs from Wyoming c1910-40. Wide variety. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Wyoming City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

RPPC of couple in rustic costumes (possibly actors) with dog. Text on front and reverse in Russian. Mailed 1913 to Washington DC. Ten cent 1908 Russia

Across the board from c1910-1970, many advertising cards for distilleries, breweries, etc. A nice collection. Date: Country (if not USA): State

Postmarked 1945 in Long Beach California, this unattributed drawing of Alfred E. Neuman predates Mad Magazine by nine years. The character's dis...

These 27 postcards have been intricately embroidered with brightly colored thread, and some have paper frame-like borders. Many appear to be handmade

Lot of over 60 postcards featuring amusement parks that are not Disneyland. Mostly Coney Island and Atlantic City boardwalk. But many vintage scenes:

54 cards by Sayer, Le Chien Fidele, Scribner & Sons, Asti Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

A four-inch stack of about 200 postcards -- RPCs, black & white printed, color printed, modern color, and illustrations featuring cars and truck...

Lot of five fabulous black and white real photo postcards. Early 1900s. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collec

Group of seventeen real photo postcards in black and white of automobiles. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Col

Two black and white postcards of two different airshows, one in Los Angeles dated February 7, 1910, and the other in San Francisco, dated January 9, 1

Johns-Byrne Company of Chicago published a Collectors Series of aviation art by Roy Anderson in 1973 and 1974. This art was promoted with these full-c

Real photo postcard of the crew and the Lockheed Monoplace he flew around the world in three days in 1938. Photographed at Floyd Bennett Field, New Yo

The second decade of the 20th century saw the rise of brave souls in flimsy contraptions who took to the air and changed humanity's relationship...

Three postcards from 1910 featuring aviation pioneers Charles K. Hamilton and Glenn Curtiss: Hamilton Ready for Flight in Curtiss Biplane; Glenn Curti

Among the earliest airplane pilots who demonstrated the wonders of aviation were French aviator Louis Paulhan, and Americans Charles K. Hamilton (&q...

French pilot Louis Paulhan was a frequent participant in airshows in the US and Europe. At the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Fi

Art Smith was an American aviator who became a noted stunt pilot, sometimes flying with flares at night. He flew at the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition af

Hubert Latham was a French airplane pilot who made the first attempts to cross the English Channel in an airplane. Being unsuccessful in both attempts

Charles F. Willard was an American aviator and engineer who took to flying as a stunt pilot and ushered in the age of barnstorming. This postcard show

Douglas Corrigan was an American aviator and aircraft mechanic who became famous for an unapproved flight from New York to Ireland in 1938. He had alr

No series of Aviation Pioneers would be complete without an entry for Wilbur and Orville Wright. Here are 4 black & white and 15 color postcards...

Many pioneer aviators were instrumental in establishing government and private airfields across the United States, and these 3 B&W and 10 color ...

The earliest airplanes use by aviation pioneers were fragile contraptions that could be broken in a light breeze. Looking at them today, it can be a s