Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Philippines: Vintage Postcards of Filipino Women



Filipino Washerwomen



Filipino Women (and a man)

I found these vintage images, courtesy of Etsy and Amazon. 


I also found this comprehensive information about Vintage Postcards from a Philippine Inquirer Article:


"For collectors of Philippine picture postcards, the early series of cards produced in the first decade of the 20th century are considered the most beautiful. They are not necessarily the rarest as they were produced at the height of an unprecedented postcard boom. However, the quality of these chromo-lithographic cards has never been surpassed. Initially a black-and-white photo was taken and from this a black-and-white lithographic plate made. The images were then hand-colored and subsequent color plates were made, sometimes with the addition of clouds in the sky and imaginative coloring for indigenous costumes. Most of the printing and coloring was commissioned by American and European postcard publishers and done in Germany, which had the finest printers. The First World War, starting in 1914, abruptly ended this international industry and signaled a decline in the quality of cards.
"During this golden age of postcard production from 1900 through 1914 numerous Filipino, American and European publishers issued sets of Philippine cards. The largest series of several hundred different images was started in Manila by a Leon J. Lambert about 1907 and bore his name on the back. He initially issued a series of cards in black and white depicting tribal minorities and views of Manila and the provinces. Usually the caption was in red and the image occasionally had two or three light colors added. In 1909 he joined with Milton Springer to form the Lambert and Springer Company and much more sophisticated color plates were used. For several years this partnership produced many of the most beautiful cards ever made of Filipino people and views. In time the company broke up and the same images with different colors and declining quality can be found under new logos. This loose exchange of original images with no identification of the photographers was common practice until well after the Second World War."

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Photos courtesy of Etsy
Tags: women, Filipinas, Philippines, Filipino, beauty
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