Wild Postcards

So much fine print, and in Chinese! I’m not sure that this postcard/map is of a large enough scale to be useful, since I can’t even make out the characters without my glasses.

The Missive Maven’s postcard of a Shanghai beauty hawking Hatamen cigarettes put me in mind that I have some similar postcards.  This is one of a set of eight postcards featuring reproductions of posters by the Xie Xing Long advertising company, which flourished in the 1920s-1930s.  Naturally, she gets the pretty girl; all of the [...]