Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Lauder, Leonard A.
| title | Leonard A. Lauder collection of Raphael Tuck & Sons postcards | repository | Newberry Library |
| description | Postcards in this collection include the prefix "LL" before the item number. While tht total number of postcards is approximately 26,000, many postcards include variations (different writing on the back or coloring on the front, etc). Each postcard item number includes all variations of that postcard. Scope and Contents Approximately 26,000 unique postcards (35,000 total) produced by Raphael Tuck & Sons, primarily from the Oilette series. This collection is available online: https://publications.newberry.org/tuck |
| extent | 35.6 Linear Feet (35,510 postcards in 57 boxes) |
| formats | Postcards |
| access | The Raphael and Sons Tuck Postcard collection is open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III). |
| record link | https://archives.newberry.org/repositories/2/resources/1080 |
| finding aid | https://archives.newberry.org/repositories/2/resources/1080 |
| acquisition information | n/a |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:58 |
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| title | The Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive | repository | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| description | Leonard Lauder began collecting postcards as a boy, when, as he tells it, he walked up and down Collins Avenue in Miami Beach gathering postcards from the displays that the many hotels provided for guests. He has also said that the collection began when he became so captivated by a postcard of the Empire State Building that he spent his entire allowance on five copies of the card. Both stories may be true. Those cards, of Miami Beach and New York, were the beginnings of a collection that has spanned nearly seven decades and has become the single most comprehensive and carefully gathered in the world. Mr. Lauder promised the collection to the MFA in 2010, and the collection has been migrating from New York to Boston in annual installments ever since. As of 2014, about 40,000 cards of the roughly 100,000 in the Archive have come to the MFA. The Archive spans the history of the postcard, from its beginnings as a humble pre-paid postal card in 1869, through the enormous postcard craze of the 1890s and 1900s, to those produced in World War II. The Archive does contain some postwar cards, but the majority of its holdings date between 1890 and 1940. Among its particular strengths are artists’ cards of the decades on either side of the turn of the 20th century; advertising cards; so-called mechanical cards, which have pull tabs and other moving parts; cards associated with politics and propaganda; and cards of ethnographic subjects, including large groups of cards from Africa. The collection also includes an extensive group of cards—nearly 15,000—issued by the Detroit Publishing Company; it is a near complete collection of cards by this important publisher of American view cards. Much of the Archive’s holdings—including ethnographic cards, artist’s cards, and cards from the Detroit Publishing Company—have been catalogued and scanned and are viewable in the collections database. |
| extent | 40000 postcards |
| access | n/a |
| record link | https://collections.mfa.org/objects/607637/14471-postcards-from-the-leonard-a-lauder-postcard-archive;jsessionid=FE1B9F0FD4626EA755E3EE116C4186C0?ctx=43e13728-843a-46ae-afa8-cc419b0e9aea&idx=2 |
| record source | https://www.mfa.org/collections/prints-and-drawings/postcards-at-the-mfa |
| finding aid | n/a |
| acquisition information | Gift of Leonard A. Lauder |
| updated | 02/14/2023 14:12:11 |
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| title | The Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards | repository | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| description | In 2004, the MFA received the gift of nearly 20,000 Japanese postcards from the collection of Leonard A. Lauder—a gift that presaged the arrival of the Lauder Postcard Archive. That collection is a perfect match with the MFA’s unparalleled holdings of Japanese woodblock prints, as the extraordinary graphic impulse in Japanese woodblock prints transferred seamlessly to the new medium of the postcard when the worldwide craze reached Japan in the years just around the turn of the 20th century. |
| extent | 20000 postcards |
| access | n/a |
| record link | https://collections.mfa.org/collections/315110/japanese-postcard-history/objects |
| record source | https://www.mfa.org/collections/prints-and-drawings/postcards-at-the-mfa |
| finding aid | n/a |
| acquisition information | Gift of Leonard A. Lauder |
| updated | 02/14/2023 14:15:05 |
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