American Colortype Company
The American Colortype Company produced and marketed a set of 28 colored postcards showing both the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy in various aspects of training or weaponry. The views depicted are of the World War I era but are domestic locales prior to our involvement in World War I.
Image sides have a black and white or white only text imprint centered at the bottom or along the upper right edge identifying subject matter. The reverse side has a paragraph of explanatory detail taking up the lower half of the message end of the card. Postcards are numbered on the reverse with a publisher imprint for American Colortype Co., Chicago.
Number | Description |
1 | Firing From Skirmish Line |
2 | Machine Gun Squad |
3 | The Armored Machine Gun Car |
4 | Cavalry Scouting |
5 | U.S. Biplane |
6 | Engineers Building Pontoon Bridge |
7 | Type Of Our Coast Defense Guns |
8 | Wall Scaling - An Important Part Of Infantry Training |
9 | U.S. Submarines Awaiting Orders |
10 | Underseas Boat About To Submerge |
11 | U.S. Submarine At Full Speed Ahead |
12 | Contact Mines Ready To Be Laid |
13 | Rescuing A Torpedo After Pracice By USS Utah |
14 | U.S. Navy Hydro-Aeroplane |
15 | Arrival of Recruits Aboard Training Ship |
16 | Troops Guarding Railroad Bridge And Tunnel |
17 | Motor Cycle Machine Gun |
18 | Directing The Range For The Mortars at Fort Wright, Fishers Island, NY |
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20 | Light Field Artillery |
21 | Field Hospital - U.S. Army |
22 | A 3-Inch Field Piece In Action |
23 | Just Before Taps |
24 | Machine Gun Company Passing Over a Pontoon Bridge |
25 | A Battery of 4.7" Guns On The March |
26 | Practicing Trench Fighting In Texas |
27 | Two Batteries Of 14-Inch Guns And Turret Crews |