{"id":30244,"date":"2024-12-08T01:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T05:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=30244"},"modified":"2024-12-06T22:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T02:38:20","slug":"this-will-grab-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/this-will-grab-ya\/","title":{"rendered":"this will grab ya!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30245\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/graber.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30245\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30245\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/graber-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ad for a 1912 Ellis Graber printing and cutting machine for photographic postcards<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In issue 19-2 of our journal, editor Ev Roseborough asks, &#8220;Ever wonder how the millions of &#8220;real photographic postcards&#8221; were made? These [machines] were used in almost every country in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the cut line under a photograph of a 1912 BJ Almanac advertisement for the Ellis Graber of Tunbridge England machine. \u00a0Most of the photo collectors around have a postcard or two in their collection. It sets the mind at rest knowing how photo postcards could be made and sold so cheaply.<\/p>\n<p>For an even less expensive, but a much reduced resolution postcard, publishers used a half-tone process &#8211; one reason for collectors to pour over the cards offered before purchasing to ensure a &#8216;photo&#8217; postcard was indeed a &#8216;photo&#8217; postcard and not a half-tone print of a photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In issue 19-2 of our journal, editor Ev Roseborough asks, &#8220;Ever wonder how the millions of &#8220;real photographic postcards&#8221; were made? These [machines] were used in almost every country in the world.&#8221; This is the cut line under a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/this-will-grab-ya\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[88,931],"class_list":["post-30244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-postcard","tag-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30248,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30244\/revisions\/30248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}