http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Mainzer Posts tagged with 'Mainzer' at MetaFilter. Mon, 09 Feb 2004 21:26:02 -0800 Mon, 09 Feb 2004 21:26:02 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/31237/On%2DAlfred%2DMainzer%2DCats%2DDressed%2DAs%2DPeople%2DPostcards <a href="http://www.geh.org/ne/mismi0/m196800820015_ful.html" title="ca. 1920, color photomechanical reproduction, 8.9 x 14.0 cm., Gift of Paul Vanderbilt, 68:0082:0015 NON-GEH NUMBER: No. 4724 INSCRIPTION: mount verso-(printed) "No. 4724 edition max k&#0252;nzli, z&#0252;rich 6'' ''imprim&#0233; en suisse - printed in switzerland'' ''alfred mainzer, 118 east 28th st., new york 16, n.y.'' ''mkz'' ''alma'' ''+s''>Cat family being photographed</a> depicts cats--dressed and bipedal--enacting a mundane human situation in a Swiss, or, at least, European setting. It is, in other words, your stereotypical <a href="http://www.xmission.com/~emailbox/mainzer.htm" title="Displayed on the following pages is my personal collection of [currently] 218 ''Dressed Cats'' postcard images.">Alfred</a> <a href="http://www.chatslunatique.com/history.html" title="Renate and Alfred Mainzer started their business in their living room in 1938 by pasting imported postcards onto little folders to be sold as greeting cards. As their business grew, they rented warehouse space and eventually purchased their own property to house their postcards, greeting cards and related wares.">Mainzer</a> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/9285/mainzwel.html" title="Welcome to Mainzer Madness! These pages are dedicated to those irresistible fantasy postcards featuring mostly cats, occasionally some dogs, infrequently some mice, and now and again all three. In the stall or store of a postcard dealer, they might be filed under the name of the individual animal, or under ''Dressed Animals.'' They may also be described as postcards depicting ''Animals Doing People Things.'' but regardless of how they are described, the postcards known by collectors as Mainzer Dressed Animal Cards offer a colorful variety that can rarely be matched by other collectible postcard series.">Dressed</a> <a href="http://kelseyspostcards.tripod.com/postcards1.htm" title="Kelsey's Graphics Expressions Alfred Mainzer Postcard gallery 1 - Here there be crappy MIDI music...">Cats</a> <a href="http://kelseyspostcards.tripod.com/postcards2.htm" title="Kelsey's Graphics Expressions Alfred Mainzer Postcard gallery 2 with more crappy MIDI....">Series</a> postcard. I have collected them in a desultory way over the years but never thought to Google Alfred Mainzer until tonight.*<br><small>*Note that all of these are personal sites and two are Tripod and GeoCities hosted, so treat kindly and tread gently. No direct links, please. coughmaybemirrothemcough</small> tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.31237 Mon, 09 Feb 2004 21:26:02 -0800 Cat Dressed Mainzer Postcard y2karl