Let’s Take a Trip from Los Angeles to Albuquerque

on Route 66 with Real Photo Postcards !

Selected images of Real Photo Postcards from the western portion of Route 66 are displayed on this web site. The Real Photo Postcard (RPPC) images have been sorted into five groups by region and acessibel from the shields below. I did not include all of the RPPC images to which I had access for any given city or sight but rather a selection of what I thought were the most interesting images. A travel essay in each section provides a thread to help organize the images that are the primary feature of these pages. The essay uses facts that I have gathered from the books that I mentioned as my favorite Route 66 Books, plus other resources such as authoritative internet web sites, contributors to these web pages, Route 66 Magazine, postcards, AAA Tour Books, and other materials.

But first if you are not exactly sure what is a Real Photo Postcard, click here.

Most of the RPPC images that I have displayed on these web pages come from the internet, and many of them from eBay where I have saved a large number of the images of the postcards offered for sale over the years. Other images have been sent to me by others and some are from my own modest collection.

The most famous photographer who printed and distributed RPPCs in the southwest was Burton Frasher, who was based in Pomona, California, not far from Route 66. Mr. Frasher principally worked in California, Nevada, and Arizona but he also ventured farther afield. Most of his RPPC images are available for viewing at the Frasher archive of the Pomona Public Library. The nice thing about this archive is that each listed postcard is dated by the year taken. However this archive is far from being comprehensive. There are actually a significant number of Frasher RPPCs that are neither catalogued nor included. Perhaps you have some in your collection.

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