Bidspirit auction | Circa 1905-1915 Postcard Album containing

Circa 1905-1915 Postcard Album containing an Assortment of Topographical, Holiday, and Novelty Postcards - This horizontal format postcard album features a black faux-alligator skin textured cover gold-stamped with the words POST CARDS. The interior contains black cardstock pages with die-cut corner slits for mounting. The collection includes a diverse variety of early 20th-century postcards from the Golden Age of postcards, spanning topographical views, holiday greetings, comic illustrations, and novelty subjects. Key topographical cards depict a baseball game at the West Side Ball Grounds in Chicago, Wyoming Avenue in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and the Tampa Bay Hotel in Florida. A notable novelty card features a color-printed photograph of the electric chair at Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York. Other subjects include Ontario Beach Park in New York shown in a night scene with illumination, the Public Library in Buffalo, and the United States Capitol. Holiday cards include embossed lithographs for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year. Comic cards include an anthropomorphic bird illustration and a barber scene, some of which bear the mark Copyright, 1905, by M. N. Co. Several postcards contain period handwritten correspondence on the face of the card. The album cover shows moderate shelf wear and rubbing to the spine and edges. The interior black pages have multiple torn and stretched die-cut corners. Postcards are generally in good condition for their age, showing typical corner bumping, minor edge wear, and occasional light surface soiling or foxing. Several cards feature period handwriting on the image side.