File:ItAotS postcard origins.jpg
Original file (512 × 784 pixels, file size: 356 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary
[edit]DescriptionItAotS postcard origins.jpg |
English: An embossed chromolithographic postcard of a seaside scene, circulated in the United States circa 1907–08. The illustration was used for the cover design of the 1998 album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by American indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel.
The illustration depicts five bathers at the seaside. In the foreground, two male bathers are swimming in the water while a female bather is seated on a dock. In the background, two other swimmers poke their heads out of the water, and farther out on the horizon three ships are sailing. An alternate version of the postcard without the gold detailing also circulated around the same time period; see "Other versions" below. The numerals "205/6" are printed on the backside of the postcard, but there is no name or identifying information for the publisher or artist. It was a "divided back" postcard, with the left side to be used as space for the sender's message and the right side to be used for the address and postage stamp(s). According to FortLewis.edu, U.S. postal regulations began allowing such "divided back" postcards starting March 1, 1907—which is consistent with the dating of the postcard, detailed below. Before then, the backside could only be used for the address and any message had to be written on the postcard's front. The postcard was just one in a series of similar seaside illustrations, which by all appearances were produced by the same artist; examples of other cards in the series can be seen at TheStrut.com. |
||
Date |
English: The eBay listing's description notes that this copy of the postcard was postmarked (in Pennsylavania) in 1908. Other known copies of the postcard were postmarked 1907–08: the copy on Cardcow was postmarked (in White Hall, Montana) on February 28, 1908, and the copy seen on Imgur appears to have been postmarked (in East St. Louis, Kansas) in 1907, though it is somewhat difficult to read because the postmark was imprinted over other text. |
||
Source |
English: Scan via a 2012 eBay listing, which is now a dead link. There is an archived version as of March 23, 2016; unfortunately, the images attached to the listing were not saved. Other copies of the postcard have been scanned (front and back) at Imgur and Cardcow (alternate version without gold detailing). Note that the backsides of both postcards are identical (except for the letter-writing and postmarking), despite the difference that one was printed with gold detailing and the other was not. |
||
Author |
English: Anonymous. Neither the illustrator nor the publisher/printer are identified on any currently known copies of the postcard, nor have they been identified by secondary sources. No artist's signature appears on the illustration itself (or on other postcards in the same series). The liner notes for In the Aeroplane Over the Sea contain the credit "Art Direction: Chris Bilheimer & Jeff Mangum", without describing (much less attributing) the postcard used to create the cover design. On page 81 of Kim Cooper's 2005 book about In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (#29 in the 33⅓ series, ISBN 0-8264-1690-X), it is described simply as "a vintage European postcard of bathers at a resort" purchased by Mangum from a thrift shop, with no indication of authorship. |
||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
English: No permission is required because the illustration is in the public domain.
|
||
Other versions |
|
Licensing
[edit]Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse |
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
|
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 04:20, 24 February 2012 | 512 × 784 (356 KB) | AnonMoos (talk | contribs) | losslessly cropping | |
03:33, 24 February 2012 | 525 × 814 (383 KB) | Remurmur~commonswiki (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description=From eBay listing: "This is the postcard used as the basis of Neutral Milk Hotel's album cover ''In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'', (1998). It was recently found by Lucie Krovatin at Palette Antiques, a shop in Lambertville, NJ... |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following 2 pages use this file:
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on ca.wikipedia.org
- Usage on en.wikipedia.org
- User:Quamalamalam
- User:MatthewHoobin
- User:Camcookie2
- User:Necropolis Hill
- User:UBX/neutralmilkhotelfan
- User:UBX/neutralmilkhotel1
- User:UBX/neutralmilkhotel2
- User:UBX/neutralmilkhotel3
- User:Bauhaus babe
- User:BEEFITRON
- User:Soverygrim
- User:FloppyTelex
- User:Inkpistachio
- User:Pillig
- User:AeroplaneSolitaire
- User:Roniius
- User:Of the universe
- User:Dronebogus
- Wikipedia:Userboxes/Music/Bands/04
- User:LarstonMarston
- User:BookWorm053/sandbox
- User:Divotdefer
- User:Francoisealey
- User:Leninenjoyer
- User:HowToRuinEverything
- User:Chiselinccc
- User:Angela HDT
- User:VastV0idInSpace0/Eyestrain-page
- User:Woodendoor100
- User:NeuroHenrique
- User:Crystal Diancie1234
- User:Yaguzi/userboxes
- User:ReWhitehaus
- User:Lalafell
- Usage on en.wikiquote.org
- Usage on pt.wikipedia.org
- Usage on ru.wikipedia.org
- Usage on vi.wikipedia.org
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Width | 525 px |
---|---|
Height | 816 px |
Bits per component |
|
Pixel composition | RGB |
Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 3 |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows |
File change date and time | 17:02, 23 February 2012 |
Exif version | 2.21 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Date and time of digitizing | 03:38, 8 February 2012 |
Date metadata was last modified | 09:02, 23 February 2012 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:D388EC3C835EE111ABF1FB83B24D8A9C |
IIM version | 37,541 |