Blank Postcard of a Mother and Baby Hippopotamus

ID: SIA2013-06625 (front) and SIA2013-06626 (back)

Creator: Curt Teich & Co

Form/Genre: Postcard

Date: 1935

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 365, Box 16, Folder: 6

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Summary

Blank postcard of a mother and baby hippopotamus at the National Zoological Park. The baby hippopotamus is sitting on the ground next to its mother, who is standing up. The message side is blank, but it has a printed note: "Five babies were born to this Hippopotamus during her life in the zoo." The front has a white border.

Subject

National Zoological Park (U.S.)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

  • #5A-H616. "C.T. Art Colortone," Made only by Curt Teich & Co., Inc., Chicago, USA. Curt Otto Teich (1877-1974), a German immigrant, founded Curt Teich & Co., which was a postcard printing company that operated from 1898 to 1978. The company specialized in view and advertising postcards, and was the largest volume printer of this type in the world from the 1920s to the 1940s. C.T. Art Colortone was a printing process used by Curt Teich & Co.
  • See Negative SIA2012-6492 for a black and white image of the postcard.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 365, Box 16, Folder: 6

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1935

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Postcard
  • Zoos
  • Animals
  • Hippos
  • Hippopotamus

Form/Genre

  • Postcard
  • Linen

ID Number

SIA2013-06625 (front) and SIA2013-06626 (back)

Physical description

Number of Images: 2; Color: Color; Size: 5.5w x 3.5h; Type of Image: Postcard; Medium: Linen

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