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1. Frank Staff, The Picture
Postcard & Its Origins (London: Lutterworth Press, 1966) 79.
2. Staff 10.
3. Staff 86.
4. Staff 86.
5. Richard Bak. Detroit, A Postcard Album (Charleston,
SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1998) 7.
6. In Americans on Vacation, Donna Braden and Judith
Endelmann discuss the concept of the Grand Tour or long trips
to Europe to see the great cities of the world. Taking a Grand
Tour was popular at the end of the Nineteenth and beginning of
the Twentieth centuries, and was seen as sign of an educated person.
Commercial manufacturers produced postcards, guidebooks, and board
games about the Grand Tour.
7. Staff 79.
8. For more on Leonard B. Willeke, see Thomas W. Brunk,
Leonard B. Willeke Excellence in Architecture and Design,
(Detroit, MI: University of Detroit Press, 1986). Information
regarding the number of postcards brought back by Willeke can
be found on page 41.
9. Early in his career, before traveling to Europe, Willeke
worked on details of Trowbridge and Livingston's new B. Altman
Department Store (NY, NY, 1905-1906). He worked at nights and
on weekends at the Atelier Hornbostel, a Beaux-Arts-styled architectural
studio, run by the important architect Henry Hornbostel (1867-1961),
where he met a number of important young architects, including
Otto Eggers (1882-1964) and Raymond Hood (1881-1934). For Trowbridge
and Livingston in San Francisco, he drafted large portions of
the important New Palace Hotel (San Francisco, CA, 1906-1909),
the first of which was destroyed in the great earthquake of 1906.
Shortly thereafter, Willeke began work for the San Francisco firm
of Sellon and Hemmings. Sellon assumed the position of State Architect
of California between 1907-1909. In this position, Willeke completed
a number of major commissions for public buildings; these included
the Folsom State Prison Maingate and Tower, Building for the Criminally
Insane and Warden's Residence, San Quentin Prison layout, Main
Cell Building, and Guard's Cottages' state mental hospital buildings
at Agnew, Mendocino, Napa, Patton, and Stockton, and state normal
schools at San Jose (now San Jose State University) and San Diego.
10. Article from The Standard quoted in Staff, p.
60.
11. Staff 59.
12. Staff 64.
13. Martin Willoughby, A History of Postcards (London:
Studio Editions Ltd., 1992) 88.
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