ETW Dennis of Scarborough.  Early GB Picture Postcards (Revised 02/01/2012)

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    ETW Dennis of Scarborough published the first British picture post card in 1894.  His firm, founded in 1870,  had a long and distinguished career as a printer and publisher, which effectively ended in June 2000,when the firm went into liquidation. Here I have mainly tried to give  the story of ETW Dennis's sustained activity in the very first years of the British  picture postcard, 1894 to 1902. . There is also a page on "earliest GB card" claims Various early GB claims

      I collect and am interested in the early (pre 1900)   ETW .Dennis picture postcard types.  . (Please left click on captions in the right panel   for the illustrated pages and details of the firm).   I am also very interested in general in the story of this printing firm and would welcome any further information.  Photograph(s) of ETW .Dennis  are  particularly welcome ,It is worth noting that the firm issued a large variety of PPCs on a national basis and would have certainly been in any  top 10 list by size of G,B PPC publishers right up to the end in 2000. Most unfortunately the firm's records were destroyed in WW2, This site attempts to piece together what happened,  at least to 1902/03,

The ETW Dennis research articles I have written in recent years  for Picture Postcard Monthly and summarised here ,greatly expands the ETW Dennis  entry  in Byatt's book "Picture Postcards  & their Publishers", particularly pre 1901 .(The Dennis trading names and copyrights were sold to John Hinde , who today still  use them to publish a  few "ETW Dennis" cards of York etc)

  Note to any Dennis genealogist passing by. My interest is in printing history, but over the years  I have accumulated some genealogical  ETWD information, in section 1

  
  1. ETW.Dennis biography
  2. Dennis first GB  card 1894
  3. Dennis artvignette  cards 1895
  4. Dennis  miniphoto  /courts 1895 to 1899
  5. Dennis saxony    cards 1895 to 1898   
  6. Dennis saxonylist   of cards , (& N.E map) 
  7. List of  ETW .Dennis articles
  8. Claims for  first G.B PPC,Stewart,Tuck/Snowdon etc 
  9. Cassel &Co    cards 1894
  10.   Dennis Non Pictorial Printing  1896
  11. Dennis & Holloway.(Dennis printing)
  12. Erroneous  claims  for first GB PPC. St Sunniva, Hook, Glasgow etc
  13. Dennis cards after 1900
  14. Non GB activities Sudan,South Africa,Australia
  15. Links Page
  16. 2009 Miscellaneous
  17. Colour Printing
 

 

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