This is a non-pho to card of Seattle that evokes a lot to me. It is in sort of a WPA/American Regionalist/NeoExpressionist sort of style. This one with the Smith tower at the center is my all time favorite mythic Seattle.
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| Front: Art Deco Seattle postcard. Postcard courtesy Deran Ludd. |
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| Back: Seattle, Glamour City of Washington. East meets West, Far North and Orient in metropolitan Seattle, U.S. gateway to Alaska and the empires of the Pacific. Postcard courtesy Deran Ludd. |
Absolutely, one of the coolest images to appear yet on Vintage Seattle. Any idea of the card’s
vintage? I love the Ballard Locks blended into Pioneer Square.
That card is just strikingly beautiful! I love it!
This is one of the better images yet seen on your blog. Interesting to note how God, with his infinite rays of light, is trying to hide behind the Smith Tower.
A gorgeous postcard. Cliffe: Any other deco pc’s in your collection and/or posted here at Vintage Seattle?
FYI, I’ve seen 5×7 reprints of this card at Annie’s Affordable Art & Frame in Ballard.
Ya, Allison, I’ve got a cool one of the Olympic Hotel in a similar style (but b&w). Gonna post it soon.
Cliffe
It is a super cool card. As far as I’m able to find out it is from the late 1930s, very early-pre war, 1940s.
I picked it up years ago at the fable Fairlook Antiques that Cliffe has spoken of. It gives Seattle that glamorous deco look we’ve always deserved, but never quite pulled off!
It’s part of a series of post cards that the Northern Pacific, the rail company that was based out of Union Station? I believe there are similarly glamorous cards of the other main cities on their routes? I’ve got a couple other pre-war postcards of local businesses taht had a deco look. I’ll dig them out at some point and send some to you Cliffe.
Cliffe – this is on eof the coolest things I have seen! I will have some stuff for you soon:)
Hey Courtney, I agree — I love the card. But thank Deran for sending it in. Let’s hope he’s got some more aces up his sleeves.
Cliffe
Hi – I hope it is ok that I am using this image in facebook for a non-profit academic librarians social in Seattle in March 2009. I love it!
How does one go about obtaining the rights to use this image? The president of my company retired and is starting her own consultancy. The key message of her job in her former role and current one is health & safety training (on the road to zero workplace injuries) in the manufacturing sector here in Canada. Would it be possible for her to use this in her promotional material (business card and powerpoint, maybe brochure)?
I am her graphic designer and would like to go about this ethically. Thank you, Marie : )
The NP started touting the North Coast Limited as completely air-conditioned when they upgraded the passenger equipment for that service in about 1933. The NP was merged into Burlington Northern in 1970, which is today’s BNSF Railway, headquartered in Ft. Worth, Texas. Given the date, the demise of the NP, I doubt there are any applicable copyright restrictions.