Roland W. Reed: Ojibway Long John / Native American (Vintage PC 1941)

original vintage postcard - no reprint! 

vintage printed postcard from the famous series Reed's Indian Pictures, published in St. Paul, Minnesota. This piece features an incredible portrait combined with a compelling transatlantic postal history from the early years of World War II.

Front Side: Features the powerful profile portrait of "Long John", an Ojibway (Chippewa) Indian, captured by the legendary Western photographer Roland W. Reed (1864-1934).

Back Side: Fully postally used and postmarked September 17, 1941, from Michigan. It contains a holiday greeting written in German by "Lottie & Otto" sent to a Master Hairdresser (Friseurmeister) Albert Schweikert in Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany.

Postal History & Stamps: The card is franked with three US stamps to meet the international postcard rate: two 1-Cent Nathan Hale stamps and one 2-Cent John Adams stamp from the famous 1938 Presidential Series ("Prexies").

size: ~ 9 x 14 cm (1 cm ~ 0.39 inch)

postally used in 1941

condition: very good...please also refer to scans which show complete front and back of postcard

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