three postcards

Mediumwood, paper, ceramic

Donor credit lineGift of Stuart M. Frank and Mary Malloy

Object number2008.58.5

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

Description1) Statue of John Boyle O'Reilly 1844-1890, The Distinguished Irish Poet and Editor. Boston, Munich and Leipzig: Reichner Bros., n.d. (ca. 1905). Tinted photographic postcard of the sculpture by Daniel Chester French erected in 1896 in Boston's Fenway.
2) "Happy Jack"./None, Alaska. "Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition/Seattle 1909." Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington: Portland Post Card Co., n.d. (ca. 1909). [Tinted photographic postcard: standing portrait of Happy Jack (Angokwazhuk), "King of the Carvers," in an embroidered parka: the rarest of the several known images.] Virtually mint, unused, pencil holograph.3) "Boston Massacre, Occurred March 5, 1770, Boston, Mass." Cambridge, Mass.: Tichnor Bros., Inc., n.d. (circa 1925). [Tinted version after the contemporaneous print by Paul Revere, clearly showing former whaleman and martyr Crispus Attucks as an African-American in sailor garb.] Postally used, postmarked Boston, Oct. 5, 1932; ink holograph address + message; rumpled margins; extremely rare.

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