Margaret Downie Banks Postcard Collecting
Interests
- Anything Musical (real or fanciful), including
- musical instruments of any type
- musical instrument manufacturers
C. G.
Conn
Musical Instrument Company, Elkhart, Indiana
- bands, orchestras, ensembles of any type or size
performers, people making music (all cultures)
- bandstands, bandshells
- amphitheaters
- auditoriums, municipal auditoriums, music halls, concert halls,
opera houses (both interiors and exteriors)
- church interiors showing organs
- musical notation
- composers
pre-1930 holiday cards with music or
musical instruments
- Anything having to do with City Parks, including
- park scenes
- park benches
- park fountains
- boating on park lakes
- bandstands, bandshells, dance and picnic pavillions
- people in parks
- The following specific Places (from any time period):
- Berlin, Germany
- Binghamton, New York
- Catalina Island, California
- Central New York State (any towns)
Corn
Palace,
Mitchell, South Dakota
- Elkhart, Indiana
- Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, battlefield
- Hamilton, New York
- Morgantown, West Virginia
- Niagara Falls, New York
- Saratoga Springs, New York
- Sioux City, Iowa
- South Dakota (any towns)
Vermillion, South Dakota
- Other categories:
- Anchors
- Bears (esp. bears around people and cars in national parks)
- Teddy bears
- Birds on pre-1930 holiday cards
- Calendar cards (pre-1930)
- Christmas cards (pre-1930)
- Churches
- Eagles
- Easter cards (pre-1930)
- Halloween cards (pre-1930)
- Holiday and Greeting cards, pre-1930 (all types)
- Homes of famous people
- Large letter cards
- Leap Year cards (pre-1930)
- Maps
- Memorial Day cards (pre-1930)
- New Year's cards (pre-1930)
- Micki and Mecki (German)
- Military humor
- Patriotic
- People doing things (pre-1960, all cultures)
- Redwood Forest
- St. Patrick's Day cards (pre-1930)
- State capitols
- Thanksgiving cards (pre-1930)
- Tuck cards
- U.S. Navy Ships
- Valentine's Day cards (pre-1930)
- Victorian architecture
Will trade.
Prefer cards sent in envelopes.
Contact before mailing cards:
mbanks@usd.edu


Link
to
Electronic Version of
Essay, "A Brief History of the Conn Company
(1874-present)"
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