Welcome to
The Photo-Mount Web Site
If you have ever browsed through a box of view cards in a postcard dealer's
inventory, you've probably seen these curious postcards. They are Photo-Mounts,
sometimes known more generically as add-ons. They were made from about
1906 to the late teens and feature a miniature photograph mounted to a
postcard. Often they have the town name heralded in a banner, along with
a verse or poem. My wife Cheryl and I started collecting them in 1993 after
we found a nice group of them from Sand Creek, Wisconsin, a town that Cheryl
collects. For as long as we had collected old postcards, we always focused
on view cards, especially real photos, from our home town areas. But with
the Sand Creek lot, and having seen other many other attractive Photo-Mounts,
we decided to form a little collection of them. A little eventually
turned into over 1,000 cards before long as many of our dealer friends
located these cards for us.
With so many varieties of these postcards in our collection, we thought
it would be fun to catalog them. Photo-Mounts lend themselves very well
to cataloging because of their very nature. They have towns, poems, and
many publishers and varieties. We finally completed our catalog. See below
for more details.
We realize that there are many more kinds of Photo-Mounts in existence
than what we've seen. Have a look through the Picture
Gallery, and if you have a card that's not pictured, please let us
know.
Some Classic Photo-Mounts by M. L. Zercher of Topeka,
Kansas
  
Want help building your collection?
Announcing... A New Postcard Book
Comprehensive Catalog of Photo-Mounts
by Shawn & Cheryl Hewitt
is a work that has been about five years in the making. It is currently
available only in electronic format
on CD-ROM, meaning that you need a computer to read the catalog,
and optionally print it to a color printer. Here is what you will find
in the catalog...
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An Introduction to Photo-Mounts
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Information on Photo-Mounts produced by over 30 publishers
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Catalog system devised by the author to identify Photo-Mounts
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Valuations for each kind of Photo-Mount
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Over 200 color images
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Chapter listing verses seen on Photo-Mounts
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Census listing all of the known towns to have Photo-Mounts
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147 Pages
Shawn & Cheryl Hewitt
Box 580731
Minneapolis, MN 55458-0731
shawn@north-trek.com
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