Printer
“NYCE” Quality Colored
Landscape Locals
Other Names
Notes
V
Y
Red text on front and
“Printed in Germany”
appears on most of
their cards, even
when the name and
logo do not (i. e. if it
looks like it’s an AC
and it’s also an
Alexander….)
A. C. Bosselman & Co.
A. M. Simon
Logo(s)
A. M. S.
Y
Y
A. Q. Southwick
Y
Acmegraph Co.
Y
Akron Postcard Co.
Y
Albertype Co.
American Floor Surfacing
Machine Co.
American Import Co.
Y
American News Company
Y
Americhrome
Lithochrome
Mezzochrome
Newvochrome
Octochrome (not to be
confused with the
Teich Octochrome)
Photochrome (not to
be confused with other
Photochromes, such as
those by Teich)
Logo varies with type.
Will usually have
clover and/or initials.
Also, ANC is notorious
for using their own
publishers/
distributors. For more
information, ANC is
found on the bottom
of the “A” page in the
publisher list on
Metropostcard.com.
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Y
American Oil Company
Y
American Printing and
Supply Co.
Art Manufacturing Co.
Art Mfg. Co.
Generally have
intricate boarders
around the photo.
Both the Amelia and
Zanesville Companies
are the same. All
postcards date
between 1908 and
1915.
Y
Y
Artino Post Card Co.
Y
Artvue Post Card Co.
Asheville Post Card Co.
Y
Y
Atkinson News Co.
Y
All postcards made
between 1904-1909
Atlas Society
Auburn Post Card
Manufacturing Co.
B. S. Reynolds Co
Ballard Photo
Auburn Greeting Card
Co.
Y
Y
Foster & Reynolds
Y
Y
Bartone
Y
Batavia Post Card
Black Hills Novelty Co.
Y
Y
Bob Wyer Photo Cards
Photochrome period.
Not to be confused
with Henry S. Wyer
cards, which are pre1920.
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Y
Book Mark Co.
The Book Mark Co.
Intricate “Post Card”
details.
Y
Burlington Route
Buswell’s Bookstore
Y
Y
C. E. Wheelock and Co.
Y
C. L. Taylor
C. P. Johnston Co.
Cann’s Studio, Inc.
Captiol Souvenir Company
Y
Y
Y
Cann’s
Cardinell-Vincent Co.
Y
Champlin Press
Chisholm News Agency
Chuck’s Color Fotos
Clark Engraving and
Printing Co.
Clinton Company
Collotype Co.
Y
Y
Y
Chisolm Bros.
Y
Y
Y
Colorart Inc.
Colourpicture Pub.
Y
Plastichrome
Colour Picture Pub.
Consolidated Art Co.
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Y
Y
Commercial Colortype Co.
Commercialchrome
Not to be confused
with Teich variety
Commercialchrome,
which has wavy lines
on either side.
Craftsman Press
Crystal Cathedral
Ministries
Curt Teich & Co.
Y
Y
C. T. Photochrom
C. T. American Art
C. T. Aquarelle
C. T. Artchrom
C. T. Colortone
Curtteichcolor
C. T. Photo-Platin
Commercialchrome
Half of all cards you
look at will be some
variation of Teich.
Also, they can be
dated by serial
number.
Y
David S. Ireland
Detroit Publishing Co.
Detroit Photochrom
Detroit Photographic
Detroit Phostint
Y
Dexter Press
Thomas Dexter Press
Dextone
Y
Dukane Press
Y
Dynacolor Graphics
Y
E. C. Kropp Co.
Initials are usually in
the stamp box. May
resemble Teich.
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Y
Eagle Post Card View Co.
Y
May be printer
(earlier) or publisher
(1940’s and ‘50’s).
Eastern Illustrating Co.
Edward H. Mitchelll
Emile Chmelitzki
Y
Emil Chmelitzki
Chemlitzki
Y
Printed cards for Illust.
Post Card Co until
1909.
Printed in the 1980s
Emil Pinkau & Co.
Eric Bruce
F. Boellinger
Far West Studios
Fincard
Francis A. Rugg
Y
Y
Y
Frank A. Rugg
E. H. & F. A. Rugg
Y
Frank W. Swallow Post
Card Co
Franz Huld
Y
Y
Pre-1914
Y
Gale Photo Card Co.
Gardner-Thompson Co.
Y
Garrison Color Corp.
Y
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Geo. H. Bowman
Company
George W. Etoll
Georgia Federation of
Women’s Clubs
Gilbert Post Card Co.
Gorny-Winzeler Press
Graphic Arts Co.
George H. Bowman
Y
Y
Y
Graphic Arts Photo
Service;
Krom-A-Tone;
Hamilton Printing Co.
If it’s a questionable
but similar name, the
printer’s location is
always Hamilton, Ohio
Graphic Facts of America
Graycraft Card Co.
Grogan Photo Service
Y
Y
Grogan Photo Co.;
Groganized;
Genuine Photograph
Groganized;
Grogan Photo System
Y
H. A. Bingamon
H. G. Zimmerman & Co.
H. H. Hamm
H. H. Tammen Curio Co.
Y
Y
Zim; Zimochrome
Harry H. Hamm
Y
May be either Toledo
or Erie. Ham logo
(top) is only found on
postcards printed by
H. H. Hamm. Logo on
bottom is found on
later postcards,
printed by Teich or
Commercial Colortype
Company (who often
aren’t named.) Only
list as printer if ham
logo is on the
postcard.
H. H. T. Co.
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Y
Y
H. L. Woehler
H. S. Crocker Co.
Y
S. Crocker
Y
Harrison Printing &
Advertising Co.
Y
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Y
Hawaii and South Seas
Curio Co.
Y
Henry S. Wyer
Wyer Art Store
Hermann Souvenir Post
Card Co.
Hickory Hill Folks
Pre- 1920. Not to be
confused with Bob
Wyer cards, which are
from the
Photochrome Period.
This is the company
based in Missouri, not
Chicago
Chromcast;
Colorcast
Y
Y
Y
Holmes, Tolle & Evans
All cards are from
1906-1909.
Hugh C. Leighton Co.
Huston Eng. Co.
Huston Engraving Co.?
Ignatz Stern
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Y
Y
Y
Illustrated Post Card Co.
Illustrated Postal Card
Co.
Illust. Post Card Co.
(May look like LLUST)
Y
Imprimeries Réunies de
Nancy
Impr. Réunies de Nancy
Y
J. Bouton & Co., Inc.
Y
Backplate always has
the same design
around the word
“postcard”
J. Murray Jordan
Y
JAS
Y
Jenkins Enterprises
Y
John Hinde Curtteich
Y
John Hinde Limited
Y
John Webb
Kaeser & Blair
Kansas Industrial
Development Commission
Kawin & Co.
Koelling and Klappenback
Pictocards
Y
Y
Y
Y
Kolorview Press
Y
Koppel Color Cards
Y
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Kraemer Art Co.
Kraus Mfg. Co.
L. C. Overpeck
Y
Kraus Manufacturing
Co.
May look like I. C.
Overpeck or Overpick
1912-1930
Y
L. L. Cook Co.
L. R. Brock Creative
Services
Y
Laurel Press
Y
Le France Color Fotos
Y
All cards are from
1910 to 1914.
Leighton & Valentine Co.
Leiter Post Card Co.
Lucky Prints
Lumitone Photoprint
Y
Y
Y
M. Rieder
Max Ettlinger & Co.
Y
E. & M. Co.; E. M. Co.;
M. & E. Co.; M. E. Co.;
The Royal Series
All cards are from
1901-1915.
Y
All cards are from
1901-1916.
Y
Mayrose Co.
Y
McElroy & Buck
McGrew Color Grapics
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Y
Meiser & Meiser
Meriden Gravure Co.
Messenger Press
Metrocraft
Y
Y
Metropolitan
Metropolitan News Co.
Be careful not to
confuse with below.
Y
What I said above.
Y
Midwest Book Company
Midwest Map Co.
Mike Roberts Studio
MWM
Mike Roberts Color
Productions;
Wesco;
Spectratone;
Scenic Art, Inc. (post
1995)
Miller Art Co.
Y
Early work as a
photographer, then
printer, and finally
publisher. Various
Logos
Y
Look similar to early
Teichs. Do not
confuse.
Y
Merger of MWM and
Dexter.
Y
Museum at Lower Shaker
Village
MWM Dexter
N. E. Paper & Stationery
Co.
Y
N. N.
National Colortype Co.
Nat. or Natl., may have
Cin at the end
National Press
Natural Color Company
Nevada Post Card Co.
Newark Post Card Co.
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Y
Y
Y
Northwest Orient Airlines
Photo
Northwest Airlines
Y
Not to be confused
with the Am. News
Co. variation.
Octochrome
Ohio Department of
Natural Resources
Ohio Printing Company
Ohio State Archaeological
& Historical Society
Oxford Art Syndicate
Oxford Museum
Association
Oxford Printing Co.
Y
Pacific Novelty Co.
Paul C. Koeber Co.
Philadelphia Post Card Co.
Y
Y
PCK
Y
Phila. Post Card Co.
Y
Photo & Souvenir Store
Photo View
Printing Service Co.
Process Color Scenes
Quicksilver Photography
R. W. Griffing
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Y
Y
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Y
Robbins Bros Co.
Y
Roller Printing and Paper
Co.
Roscoe Dixon
Rotograph Co.
Samuel Langdorf & Co.
Y
Sol Art Prints
S. Langdorf
Langdorf
Y
May look like
Rotograph card.
San Antonio Card Co.
Sanborn Souvenir Co.
Security Lithograph Co.
Snyder Mfg. Co.
Y
Y
Y
Selithco
F. W. Snyder;
Snyder’s Art & Gift
Shop;
Frank W. Snyder
Y
Frank Snyder was a
local Oxford
photographer. He is
sometimes the
printer, but often the
publisher. List as
printer if no other
printer is known.
Southern Hotel
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Y
Souvenir Post Card Co.
E. Frey
Y
St. Louis Color Postcard
Co.
St. Louis Postcard Co.
Y
Sterling Printing Co.
Straw Bros.
Y
Suhling & Koehn Co.
Suhling Co.
Y
Taylor, Platt & Co.
T. P. & Co.
Y
Teacraft Co.
Texas Department of
Commerce
Y
Thayer Publishing Co.
Y
Thomas & Co.
Y
The difference
between Tichnor and
Teich when looking at
fancy font: Teich says
“made in Germany”
Tichnor Bros.
Tolle & Evans Holmes
Tom Jones
Trademark Concepts
Union Oil Company
Y
Y
Truepicture
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Y
Valentine & Sons
Publishing Co.
Valentine’s Co. Ltd. Ltd.
Valentine’s
Valentine Publishing
Co.
Y
Valentine-Souvenir Co.
Y
Victory Postcards
W. A. Fisher Co.
W. G. MacFarlane
W. H. Bowron
W. H. Case
W. P. Jefferies Co.
Before 1908.
Y
Y
Y
Wayne Paper Box & Prtg.
Fort Wayne Printing;
Wayne Printing
Weixelbaum
M. Weixelbaum Co.
Can be Dated by serial
number.
Also a publisher; list as
printer unless another
is on the card.
White House Publishing
Co.
Whitten & Dennison Post
Card Co.
Will P. Canaan Co.
Woodgifts
Woolsey & Blaser
Wyco Colour Productions
Ye Postte Cardde Shoppe
Yorkolor Process
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Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y