"Street Musicians on Postcards" is a new, soft-cover A5 size book
of 108 pages with over 90 illustrations, most are in colour.  This
book is dedicated to those past times when people used pen and ink
to communicate and post-bags went by steam train or horse drawn wagon,
a way of life which has vanished forever.  It concentrates on one
aspect, the street musician playing barrel organ and barrel piano.

This wonderful book would be an ideal present for anyone who collects
postcards as well as anyone interested in social history of a hundred
years ago or the instruments.  Headings include: Hampstead Heath,
English Street Scenes, Ford & Barris, Comedy Photographs and Adeline
Patti, The History of the Postcard, The Stages Photographic Postcard,
The Cartoon, The Organ Grinder, The Foreign Comic Postcard, The Story
of Christies Old Organ, The Anniversary, Postcard Pictures & Paintings,
Advertising & Oddments, Gramophone Postcards.

Price is £15 plus £2 UK postage.  If you live elsewhere please ask
for a shipping quote.  PayPal now accepted in payment.  Copies will
be available at the M.B.S.I. Annual Meeting in Las Vegas.

Thanks,
Kevin McElhone
kevin_mcelhone@hotmail.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]