Massive Insane Scanner

Got it. Tested it. It's HUGE and really, rather heavy. 4.5 kilos/10 lbs. Looks like it's from the 1990s even though it's new. But it can scan properly, at an insanely fab resolution. The only improvement I'd inflict on it would be platen size (the scannable area on, er, the glass bit where you put stuff). I have loads of bristol boards --~28 cm by 35.5 cm/11in by 14in--that would love to be scanned without Photoshop stitching (not really that much of a problem, just takes fiddling). To this day, however, such larger scanners run into the tens of thousands of... yes.

Really awesome, though, golly.

Here are some astonishingly lovely cards from 1911-1924, some of which have more correspondence than others.

Zoom on the bottom right card, the front, with the initial 'G'. See the nacre/mother-of-pearl? It's incredible. Another one to zoom in on: bottom left. Look at all of that coloured silk. The lacey detail about the edges! This is the one printed in Hebrew and German.

Backs of all cards as well as insides below.

FRONT:

INSIDES ONE:

INSIDES AND BACKS AND OTHER:

The other booklets--I'm gettin' there! :-)

Multnomah Falls, 1930 - Ephemera 1

Thus begins the ephemera scan-fête...

Interesting that the card was never actually posted (meaning 'sent', posted through the mail); as Mr Gus says, maybe they put it in an envelope with some other stuff (I thought, initially, that perhaps they'd handed it over in person).

From Hillsboro, Oregon. 15 December 1930.

Translation (literal) of back of postcard:

'Dear "Ma & Dad" I suppose you will have some of the children & grand children with you over the Holiday Season. I think you must be through drying fruit by this time. Fruit as well as everything else is cheap at present, even eggs are cheaper than they have been at any time in the past 2 years, 20^cts a doz. for standards. We have had lovely weather all fall and not very much rain. We expect to start our hatchery the first of Jan. I guess we won't have so many early orders but no doubt will get them later. We have some orders for Jan. Have you got your Radio, Dad? I'm sure you have. We listen in on K.N.X. Hollywood every Sun. eve. at 6:30 to hear Dr. Abell the Humanist give his talk. We don't use the Radio much except evenings. The season's Greetings to you from all of us. Mrs. Hughes'