Robert G. Lamparter Postcard Collection

Name/Title

Robert G. Lamparter Postcard Collection

Entry/Object ID

ARC.2603

Scope and Content

The Robert G. Lamparter Postcard Collection covers a century of postcard art, photography, and correspondence relating to Montauk, New York. The collection includes 175 examples of popular postcards dating from 1900-2005. The postcards were collected by Robert G. Lamparter from antique shops and flea markets. While many postcards in the collection are blank, some postcards dating from 1906-1960 include correspondence, offering a brief glimpse into the travel and recreational life of residents and visitors. The postcards primarily depict scenes of Montauk or the Montauk Lighthouse, additional locations include scenes around Long Island, East Hampton, Sag Harbor, and Amagansett.

Archive Details

Creator

Robert G. Lamparter

Date(s) of Creation

circa 1900 - circa 2005

Restrictions

No restrictions.

Acquisition

Acquisition Method

Gift

Acquired From

Keri Lamparter

Copyright

Type of License

In copyright: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Copyright Details

Researchers assume all responsibility for copyright questions. Fair use is permitted. For all other uses please contact archives@montauklibrary.org.

General Notes

Note Type

Historical Note

Note

Robert G. Lamparter (1936 – 2013) was an art and photography teacher at Walt Whitman High School in Huntington, N.Y. Retirement in 1996 allowed him to move year-round to his beach house in Montauk, where he became involved in civic organizations and pursued his hobbies of surfcasting and postcard collecting. Lamparter acquired different views of Montauk that spanned more than a century of postcard manufacture, and in fact, are richly representative of the evolution of postcard production. View cards are postcards of places: states and cities, and the buildings, streets, monuments, and sources of amusement and entertainment that give those places a personality. For Montauk, that means beaches, fishing boats, surfcasters, hotels, restaurants, golf courses, dude ranches, and of course – the Lighthouse. Lamparter avidly collected postcards of the Montauk Lighthouse. He was passionate about its history and preservation. The Robert G. Lamparter Collection is comprised of postcards that represent almost every time period and style of postcard history. They are important for their photography, publisher, printer, postmark, stamp, age, and handwritten message. For this reason, the back of each postcard was also scanned.