Notes:
Goodwin & Company was an American tobacco manufacturer from New York City. Initially E. Goodwin and Brother, the company was founded before the American Civil War. It was known for its cigarette brands "Gypsy Queen" and "Old Judge". In 1890, the company was merged, along with four others, into James Buchanan Duke's American Tobacco Company to create an American monopoly on tobacco product manufacturing and retail.
Charles Goodwin Emery, who had the principal interest in Goodwin & Company, became Treasurer of the American Tobacco Company. Emery built a showplace "castle," known as Calumet Castle at the Thousand Islands (Clayton, New York) and was principal investor in the grand Frontenac Hotel nearby.
Today the company is mostly remembered for its tobacco trading cards, depicting baseball players, other athletes, and a variety of social scenes and portraits. In 1887, Goodwin & Co. were the among the first to issue trading cards to promote their brands, first using sepia-toned photographic albumen prints, and later chromolithographic reproductions of multi-colored etchings.
Format: trading card, chromolitho, verso added
Date Range: 1900
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons. .
Repository: Blue Mountains Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Local Studies Collection
Provenance: from the Jack Proctor historic post card collection
Links: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwin_%26_Company
Tags: trading card history
Notes: Henry Traut (1857- 1940) operated a portrait studio in Munich, made souvenir photos of the stars of theatre and royalty, and investigated scientific and medical applications.
Format: Post card, Atelier Henry Traut, Munich, S-578-5828, applied glitter with tinting
Date Range: 1907
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/yourcommunity/library
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS images, Proctor album
Provenance: Jack Proctor post card collection
Links:
Henry Traut home.henrytraut.com/html/his_work.html
Tags: history
Notes: Asti Studios operated a commercial photographic studio at 117 King Street in Sydney from 1908-1929.
Later described a serio-comic and dancer, Goldie first appears in the Brisbane Courier in April 1901 as Little Goldie Collins. She sailed for London with her Mum in September 1901, returning on the S.S. Salamis from London in December 1902.
She arrived in Hobart from Melbourne in August 1906, where she in mentioned in the Footlights column in the Hobart Clipper - "Among the new artists to appear at Bain's, is the little favorite, Goldie Collins (or 'Golden Curlings' as the dead-shookers call her)."
In the Sydney Morning Herald in 1907, dancing teacher Tom Donnelly claimed her as his star pupil with a national reputation.
She was in Broken Hill in 1912, "prior to her departure for England" and called "Australia's Queen of Soubrettes and Dancers", where they loved her - from the Barrier Miner newspaper:
"THE EMPIRE.
Miss Goldie Collins, the popular serio, has "made good" with Empire Theatre audiences, and last night she again received a flattering reception at the hands of a large and appreciative audience. The Brackens and the rest of the company are also meeting with success. Pictures and music by Mr. Bert Smith's Orchestra are also popular features. "
In October 1912 the NSW Police Gazette reported the theft of her 15 ct. gold cable bangle, her address was care of Her Majesty's Theatre, Pitt St. Sydney.
In August 1915 the Bendigo Advertiser reported she was now in England, playing a leading part in "Yes. I Think So,'' and featured as "the Australian Revue Girl."
After 1915 newspaper references cease and are replaced in the 1920s by "Goldie" Collins the VFL footballer.
However in 1942 she married Wilfred Mumford in Manly, NSW.
Format: Postcard, divided back, not posted, hand coloured with applied glitter and sequins.
Date Range: 1908
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons 3.0.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/yourcommunity/library
Part of: Local Studies Digital Collection
Provenance: Jack Proctor
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Tags: vaudeville postcard history
Notes: Ada Reeve (3 March 1874 – 5 October 1966) was an English actress of both stage and film. Reeve began to perform in pantomime and music hall as a child. She gained fame in Edwardian musical comedies in the 1890s.
Reeve found considerable success on tour in Australia, South Africa, America and other places in pantomime, variety and vaudeville in the new century. At the age of 70 she began a film career, which she pursued for over a dozen years.
Format: postcard, divided back, 'Portrait Bas-Relief Card' The J.B. & Co. series. J. Beagles & Co., London. Embossed lettering and glitter outline. Posted to Mrs E Wiggins, Bee Farm Rd, Springwood
Date Range: postmark 1907
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/yourcommunity/library
Part of: Local Studies Digital Collection
Provenance: from the collection of Jack Proctor
Links: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Reeve
Tags: postcards actress Edwardian history
Notes: Henry Traut (1857- 1940) operated a portrait studio in Munich, made souvenir photos of the stars of theatre and royalty, and investigated scientific and medical applications.
In 1908 Mary Irber (1884-1967) gave performances at the Intimes Theatre in Munich which scandalised the morality campaigners and resulted in accusations in the press of it being a 'workshop of shameless indecency'. Its operating licence was revoked within months. Mary died age 83 and is buried in the Ostfriedhof Cemetery in Munich.
Format: Post card, Atelier Henry Traut, Munich, S-667-6342
Date Range: 1907
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/yourcommunity/library
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS images, Proctor album
Provenance: Jack Proctor post card collection
Links:
Henry Traut home.henrytraut.com/html/his_work.html
Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performance books.google.com.au/books?id=DSMaGteQYF4C&pg=PA244&am...
Ostfriedhof Munich - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostfriedhof_(Munich)
Cemetery record - friedhof.stadt-muenchen.net/d_grab.php?id=710
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