Antique & Vintage Postcards

An almost overwhelming harvest tableau — watermelons, pumpkins, squash, corn, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, cabbage, and dozens of other vegetables and gourds piled high in a vibrant cornucopia — shouts agricultural pride from every inch of this chrome-era "Greetings from Nebraska" card, a postcard type produced for roadside gift shops and tourist stops across the Great Plains in the prosperous postwar decades when Nebraska farmers were feeding the nation and happy to tell you about it. Published by Pospeshil Photographers of Sioux City, Iowa and distributed through the Pospeshil Card Service in Orchard, Nebraska, this card captures the vivid Ektachrome colour palette beloved by mid-century travellers; the handwritten price mark "1/-" on the back suggests it once sat in a wire rack priced at a shilling for a British market, or simply at one cent for a domestic buyer.