From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository Tichnor Brothers Inc. from Boston, USA. produced color postcards with a linen texture dated ca. 1930-1945. The complete collection of 25,000 office proofs is held by the Boston Public Library. Lees verder
Tichnor Brothers Inc. from Boston, USA. was registered from 1912 up to 1987 and produced color postcards with a linen texture dated ca. 1930-1945. A major publisher and printer of a wide variety of postcards types. Their view-cards were produced on a national level. They also produced a black & white series on the hurricane of 1938 in line block halftone.
The complete collection of 25,000 office proofs is held by the Boston Public Library, which publishes many of them on Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bostonpubliclibrary/collections/72157604352556390/
Their photochomes went under the trade name Lusterchrome. They also produced an early Tichnor Gloss series in offset lithography that was so heavily retouched they floated somewhere between being artist drawn and being a photograph. The company was sold in 1987 to Paper Majic.
Many of the 25.000 produced cards of Tichnor Bros are documented on Flickr
Thomas Blake, Digital Projects Manager, Boston Public Library has confirmed that they were published without a copyright notice, and are therefore public domain in the USA.