Postcard: Hoboken, the Home of Frank Sinatra. By Amanda Dale. Published by HHM, 2008.
Entry/Object ID
2008.003.0024
Description
Postcard: Hoboken, the Home of Frank Sinatra. By Amanda Dale, age 12. Calabro Primary School. Teacher: Ms. Belfiore. Published by the Hoboken Historical Museum, 2008. 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" wide. 2 copies.
This is no. 6 of a fifteen card series (note: numbers 2 to 7 read as "of ten postcards"; series was expanded and cards numbers 8 to 15 are marked as "of fifteen postcards") issued during the exhibition, Greetings From Hoboken: A Postcard History and other related museum children's education activities and upper gallery exhibits related to school art programs.
Image drawn unspecified colored media (crayon, markers, etc.) has the title lettering with a portrait of Sinatra at the upper left with girl and boy holding hands, "Friendship," below.
The format of the back is "Greetings from Hoboken" with a reproduction of a stamp with a cancellation mark with the exhibition name and dates (which records July 3, but the exhibit actually was on view until August 3.) This design was by McKevin Shaughnessy with this date appears on cards numbered 2 to 6; no. 7 is a variant. Postcards 8 to 15 in the series are dated August 3 to Oct. 12, 2008 for an upper gallery exhibition of artwork related to kids postcard art.
All cards in the series are objects catalog 2008.003.0019 to .0033.
