Indians (Native Americans) – Global Postcard Sales

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Navajo family, Monument Valley (Arizona)
Dexter Press unused card 29690-B, or 3821, depending on which number you believe. Dates from 1960s, rounded corners, as-new apart from gentle aging. Grade: 1

Code: 33800001
Price: $6.00
Crown Dancers (Apache)
Also captioned as “Devil Dancers,” the Norman Mead card shows native Americans in action. Mailed in 1979, two stamps and much of a postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 33800003
Price: $2.50
Custer Monument, Little Bighorn River
Unused card of Retreat Ravine in Custer Battlefield, from 1970, index #80467 and C-2012. Reverse is gently aged and unmarked but upper front has some abrasions. Grade: 3

Code: 33800004
Price: $2.50
Ft. Lincoln, earth lodges (Mandan, North Dakota)
Unused Curteichcolor card 9DK-613 from the 1970s. Probably hasn’t changed a lot since then, but we haven’t been there lately, either. Grade: 1

Code: 33800005
Price: $3.00
Santa Fe and Taos (folio)
This is a fold-out folio of 18 views, not individual postcards. It is in superb condition apart from a travel agent’s rubber stamp on the inside cover. Grade: 4

Code: 33800006
Price: $8.00
Bernalillo County Indian Hospital (Albuquerque, NM)

Unmailed Southwest Post Card Co. / Curteich-Chicago linen card 4C-H774, with the date “1958” pencilled on the reverse alongside a travel agent’s rubber stamp. Grade: 4

Code: 33800007
Price: $1.00
Shiprock (New Mexico)
Caption tells us the Navajos revere this landmark as Tse Bida hi, or “Winged Rock.” Card was mailed from Denver in 1998 with a Jacqueline Cochran 50-cent airmail stamp and all sorts of postmarks on the back. Some abrasions around the edges. Grade: 3

Code: 33800008
Price: $2.00
Laguna Indian Pueblo
Southwest Post Card Co. / Curteich-Chicago card 9A-H1280 (and #18), unmailed linen, completely undamaged on the front but with travel agency rubber stamp on reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 33800009
Price: $3.00
Taos Pueblo (New Mexico)
Taos is “the most well known of all the pueblos,” and the card–mailed in 1996 from Albuquerque–benefits from having a 32-cent Butterfly Dance commemorative stamp affixed. Grade: 1

Code: 33800010
Price: $3.00
Vancouver (reproduction)
Sepia reproduction of old photo, but card was mailed in 1987. Stamp intact, and postmark largely readable. Blue airmail sticker on reverse, covers much of caption. Minor creasing on lower right front corner. Grade: 3

Code: 33800011
Price: $3.50
Four Corners, Greetings
We are assigning different Four Corners cards to each of the four states, even though it’s just been reported the actual location is a few miles away. Won’t that be fun to relocate. But you’ll find them all in this category anyway. Unused card from the 1960s, aging a bit and with serrated edges. Grade: 2

Code: 33800012
Price: $3.00
American Indian signs
This unused card 2USMN-191 (and 55-B) is informative but we’re not sure how accurate all this is. Grade: 1

Code: 33800013
Price: $3.00
Fred Harvey Indian Building and Alvarado Hotel (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Unmailed Petley card 18244 from the 1950s or 60s. The front, which also shows Santa Fe RR tracks and the Alvarado Hotel, is excellent; the reverse has a travel agent’s rubber stamp mark on it. Grade: 4

Code: 33800014
Price: $3.00
Custer Battlefield, 7th Cavalry (USA)
Real photo historic postcard bought in 1970 at Crow Agency, though of course it could have been 90 years earlier and looked the same. Unmailed, as-new. Grade: 1

Code: 33800015
Price: $3.00
Custer National Monument (USA)
Card dates from 1970 and was never mailed but has a few abrasions on the front. Many attributions and index numbers printed on the reverse: 71879, C-2011, Ken F. Roahen, Billings News Agency, Ellis Post Card Co. Google away! Grade: 3

Code: 33800016
Price: $3.00
Indian Wranglers (USA)
Azusa Publishing card from 1993 of a 1910 photograph of two Standing Rock Sioux. Card was written for mailing but never mailed. Grade: 4

Code: 33800017
Price: $2.00
Southwest Indian Artifacts
Mailed from Denver in 1988 with two stamps and full postmark. Creased upper right corner. Grade: 2

Code: 33800018
Price: $3.00
U.S. Capitol, Rotunda, Baptism of Pocohontas (Chapman)
Unused old B.S. Reynolds card R-48009, in great condition. Grade: 1

Code: 33800019
Price: $3.00
U.S. Capitol, Rotunda, De Soto’s Discovery of the Mississippi River
Unused old B.S. Reynolds card R-48008, in great condition. Full name of the artwork: “De Soto’s Discovery of the Mississippi River, May, 1541,” by W.H. Powell. Grade: 1

Code: 33800020
Price: $3.00
Navajo family (Arizona)
Unused, aging Petley card 12226 (and K-459) from the 1960s, with serrated edges and abrasion on the front. Grade: 4

Code: 33800021
Price: $1.00
Taos Pueblo (New Mexico)
Photo by Merilyn Brown on this card mailed in 1997 with the address on a label, two stamps, but only partial postmark. Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 4

Code: 33800022
Price: $1.50
Burial place of Old Chief Joseph, Lake Wallowa (Oregon)
Unused Dexter Press card 18528-B, rounded corners, showing the reburial place of this chief and his friend, early pioneer F.D. McCulley. Grade: 3

Code: 33800023
Price: $2.00
Black Hawk statue (Oregon, Illinois, USA)
This is one of those cards where the caption writer ran amok and told us more than everything. Unused card 8442. Grade: 3

Code: 33800024
Price: $2.00
Blackhawk State Park, Watch Tower Hill (Illinois, USA)
Unused card 73733, telling us that “This hill was the favorite resort of Chief Blackhawk of the United Nations of the Sauk and Fox Indians,” now Blackhawk State Park. Grade: 2

Code: 33800025
Price: $2.00
First Encounter Beach, Cape Cod (Massachusetts)
Unused “local” card 30453 (C-292) showing where early settlers first met Indians on December 8th, 1620. Grade: 4

Code: 33800026
Price: $1.00
Copper Country, Keweenawland (Michigan)
Unused, aging Curteichcolor card 6C-K216. The Copper Country’s first settlers apart from Native Americans, in 1666, led up to a treaty between the U.S. Government and Chippewa Indians in 1843. Grade: 3

Code: 33800027
Price: $1.00
Fording the Platte River
Most likely the people portrayed in this 1866 William H. Jackson sketch didn’t have Interstate 80 in mind. Unused Dexter Press card 13923-B. Grade: 1

Code: 33800028
Price: $3.00
Big Hole Battlefield (Montana)
Really detailed caption explains the battle involving Nez Perce warriors and U.S. cavalrymen that took place there in 1877. The unused Dexter Press card 20210-C, browning with age, is somewhat newer. Grade: 3

Code: 33800029
Price: $2.00
The Cherokee Indian Drama (North Carolina)
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 1C-H1778 (565) of a location where “America’s foremost play of history, ‘Unto These Hills,’ is presented summer-long, six nights weekly.” The focus is on Cherokee Indians, as the caption explains. Grade: 3

Code: 33800030
Price: $3.00
Betty Zane Monument (Ohio, USA)
Unused “local” card 108239, with inked initials in postage area. Betty Zane, FYI, was “heroine of the siege of Fort Henry, when indians led by British soldiers attacked the fort in 1782 …” Grade: 3

Code: 33800031
Price: $2.00
Indians netting fish, Celilo Falls (Oregon-Washington, USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 8CK2024, much more complicated to describe than it should be, so we won’t try. Grade: 2

Code: 33800032
Price: $3.00
Sacajawea, “The Bird Woman” (Oregon)
Unused Curteichcolor card 3DK-2034 of Sacajawea, “The Bird Woman,” who was the interpreter for the Lewis & Clark expedition to Oregon in 1804-1805. She was a Shoshoni Indian of Idaho, and this statue is in Washington park. All this information is courtesy of the card’s caption. Grade: 3

Code: 33800033
Price: $2.00
Grave of Chief Cornplanter (Pennsylvania)
Beyond what the caption tells us, this took more than a little Google research. The Chief was a Seneca Indian. The grave overlooks Kinzua Dam, across from Willow Bay recreational area, on a lake located between Salamanca New York and several Pennsylvania towns. Unused Natural Color card 112055. Grade: 3

Code: 33800034
Price: $2.00
American Indian Heritage Foundation, Falls Church (Virginia)
It looks like these cards are sold or supplied to donors to the Foundation, who are then encouraged to mail them. This unused card wound up with us. Grade: 1

Code: 33800035
Price: $2.00
Monacan Indians and Natural Bridge, Virginia
Just the sign, not the bridge. Unused Lusterchrome card K-18433. Grade: 3

Code: 33800036
Price: $2.00
Spirit Rock, Menominee Indians (Wisconsin)
The reverse caption, in fine print, occupies half the message area and goes into great detail about the entire legend. Exhausting! Medicine! Hunting! Tobacco! Veils! Unused “local” card. Grade: 3

Code: 33800037
Price: $4.00
Menotomy Indian statue, Arlington (Massachusetts)
Unused Yankee Colour Corp. card 19804 (G-5) dated 1964. Grade: 3

Code: 33800038
Price: $2.00
A sad little pair of Indian papooses
Not quite P.C. now but times have changed. Mailed in 1937, with stamp and indistinct postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 33800039
Price: $6.00
Navajo Indian family (Arizona)
Unused Dexter Press/Sanborn Suvenir card 29690-B (and 10-W-142), serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 33800040
Price: $2.00
Pueblo Squaw Grinding Corn
Unused old W.R. Walton card 5729. Grade: 2

Code: 33800041
Price: $5.00

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Unmailed Southwest Post Card Co. / Curteich-Chicago linen card 4C-H774, with the date “1958” pencilled on the reverse alongside a travel agent’s rubber stamp. Grade: 4