VINTAGE POSTCARDS

 I thought maybe you would find what my Hubby and I are selling on eBay now interesting.

We sell a great variety of things and I have always found postcards to be fascinating.

I'm not sure where or when we acquired these 4 Hawaiian postcards.

We decided it was time to put them into someone else's hands.

They have been in an album long enough.

This card is a real photograph and dated from approximately 1903

The photographer Edward H. Mitchell was well known for his Hawaiian photographs.

Make sure you enlarge this one so you can see the detail.

These are tourists in the 1890's up on the Hawaiian volcano named Kilauea.

They are scorching their souvenir postcards with the hot burning lava from the volcano.

I love how they are dressed while doing this.

This next postcard is of the Pali Battlegrounds on the Island.

What makes it especially interesting to me are the "Coolies" walking the trail with their

"yokes" of water or supplies.

This is from the late 1890's too.  It sure was a different time then.

This last postcard is of "Hula Hula Dancers" right at the turn of the century.

I believe that is Diamond Head behind them.

The women seem to have shirts on under their leis which helps date it.

The missionaries insisted the women go topless no longer.

Hope you enjoyed these postcards.

I find this type of history fascinating.