Please Help Identify this Fred Clarke Postcard

[Kris19]

Any information about the Fred Clarke postcard shown below would be greatly appreciated. I do not recall ever seeing it or any others that might be from the same series. The postmark is October 1907. Anyone?

Thanks!

[h2oya311]

Very cool postcard. Wish I could help, but I’ve never seen it before. Where is Barry S. When you need him? Oh yeah...forgot

[steve B]

This may be the person it's addressed to.

https://gw.geneanet.org/gcollins?lan...bert+lafayette

Oddly, he was working for Curtis Ireland in 1917

[JeremyW]

Kris- That must be one helluva rare PC. Wish I could help.

[Kris19]

Thanks guys. Steve, I had not thought to research the recipient, other than to assume he was a student at Cornell. Interesting connection you found there to the E123 set!

Jeremy, I guess so. I had casually asked a few postcard expert friends and they had never seen it or one like it, but I didn’t think it would stump the entire Net54 crowd for this long!

[steve B]

It's not certain that's the addressee. With a bit more looking, Cornell lists a Gilbert Lafayette Collins as a second year mechanical engineering student in 1911-12. So it's possible that the linked info is wrong, or there was a second guy with the same name who went to Cornell a few years later. Or the same guy had an "interesting" college career, or was delayed by military service between 1907 and 1911?

Cornell has their directories online, or at least some of them. I didn't find the 1907 one, but I didn't look very hard at all.

Sometimes looking up the addressee of an item leads to some pretty interesting things.

[LEHR]

That's an awesome PC! I've never seen one before.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Kris19

Any information about the Fred Clarke postcard shown below would be greatly appreciated. I do not recall ever seeing it or any others that might be from the same series. The postmark is October 1907. Anyone?

Thanks!

Neat postcard. Wish I could personally help on it's id. I have reached out to Robert S who knows as much about postcards as almost anyone I know. He has been MIA around here for a while but hopefully he will chime in.

[Jobu]

Our friend Greg did a painting of this image (thanks to John D for the tip). No help here, but always fun to look at his incredible work.