La Fonda Hotel-Back, Santa Fe, NM-Back

=====Message=====
Date: undated.

Text-in ink: "Hi, Came down here to play around with the Indians for a few days. This town is 7,000 ft above sea level and cool.
Tony."

Addressee: Miss Eleanor Geisler, 1491 Bluff St, Dubuque, Iowa.

=====Description Information=====

Postcard title: La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, NM-Back.

Publisher: Dexter Press Inc. founder Thomas A. Dexter began printing postcards in 1934 in New York and New Jersey. The collection, donated by Tommie Dexter Reardon, daughter of the founder of the company, includes job printing files; black and white, linen finish, and chrome postcards; and a box of black and white photographs used to make the black and white postcards. A later addition includes photographs and negatives, postcard samples, framed photographs, 3-D postcards, and other assorted postcards. Rounding out the collection are photographs of the interior and exterior of the Dexter Press offices, and a scrapbook with articles, photographs, and brochures from the 1920s to the 1990s.

The business records of Dexter Press are held at The Newberry Library as part of the Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection, Chicago, Ill, USA.

Date published: Circa 1965.

Printed text: La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico... Stands on the site of the Old Fonda or Inn, which marked the end of the Santa Fe Trail.

Pub. by Custom Craft.

82978-B. Made by Dexter Press Inc., West Nyack, New York.

Postmarked: April 17, 1967. K.C. and Albuquerque W.D., TR 18 R.P.O (Railway Post Office).

Stamp: $0.04 Lincoln grey.

Postcard period: Photochrom, 1945-Present.

Location found: Online-Ebay.

Date found: December 20, 2020.

Price paid: $0.12

Dimension: 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.

Notes: All scans are uploaded as archival quality at 600 dpi with lossless file type, .tiff.

Sources: "Dexter Press Inc. Records, 1934-Approximately 1992." The Newberry, Identifier: Modern.MS.Dexter, mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_files/Dexter.xml. Accessed January 5, 2021.

Taken in: United States / Iowa / Dubuque / Dubuque (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 2021

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