Postcards: E. T. Brown – Type VA – Eight Avenue – Bulawayo – Southern Rhodesia
E. T. Brown
Type VA – Eight Avenue – Bulawayo – Southern Rhodesia
Victoria Falls Hotel Victoria Falls The original Victoria Falls Hotel was intended only as temporary quarters for the railway employees, and was to be removed after construction of the bridge. However once established, it was quickly expanded and proved impossible to close, despite the objections of the Administrator of North Western Rhodesia, Robert Coryndon and…
John G Bain Type I FB
British Overseas Airways Corporation British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned airline created in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. After the passing of the Civil Aviation Act of 1946, European and South American services passed to two further state-owned airlines, British European Airways (BEA) and British South American Airways (BSAA). BOAC…
Lorton Communications Type II FB
Beanes Photo Service Type I FB
Valentine & Sons Ltd Dundee Valentine and Sons was a printing company founded in Dundee, Scotland in 1851 by James Valentine (1815–1879), that grew to become Scotland’s leading manufacturer of picture postcards. After training as a portrait painter in Edinburgh, James Valentine returned to Dundee and established a successful engraving business, eventually opening a photographic…