- Creator
- Montgomery, Marshall Hugh, 1909-2000
- Call number
- AZ 14-721
- Physical description
- 100000 postcards in 171 boxes, color and black and white, postcards 18 x 28 cm or smaller; 100000 postcards in 171 boxes, color and black and white, postcards 18 x 28 cm or smaller
- Preferred Citation
- Montgomery postcard collection [graphic], Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy
- Location
- AZ 14-721
- Access to materials
- Request a research appointment: https://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/milstein
Marshall Hugh Montgomery was born May 16, 1909 in New York. He received a B.A. from Middlebury College, Vermont and married Prudence Ingham in 1933. Montgomery worked in the finance industry and was Senior Vice-president of Aubrey G. Langston Co. from 1951-1974. He began collecting postcards when he retired in 1974. Montgomery was also an amateur genealogist and local historian and lived in Connecticut and Delray Beach, Florida. He died in Delray Beach on Oct. 11, 2000 at age 91. Over 100,000 mostly color postcards compiled by Marshall Hugh Montgomery. Topics include geographic places, both United States and foreign, greeting cards, boats, bridges, children, costumes, humor, lighthouses, military and naval, roads, roadside America, and World War I. There is a secondary set of topics and several small collections within the larger: the Wieland Collection (compiled by George Reber Wieland), the Flora Downing Collection and "Detroits" (Detroit Publishing Co.). There are also a few notes, clippings, pricelists, newsletters, catalogs, and other publications, as well as a number of books relating to postcards and postcard collecting.
Key terms
Names
- Downing, Flora (collector)
- Wieland, G. R. (George Reber), 1865-1953 (collector)
- Detroit Publishing Co.
Subjects
- Bridges -- Pictorial works
- Greeting cards
- Postcards -- 19th century
- Postcards -- 20th century
- Roadside architecture -- United States -- Pictorial works
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Pictorial works
Places
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and GenealogyStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
First Floor, Room 121