Great Lakes Postcard Set 5-Pack

FIELD NOTES GREAT LAKES POSTCARD SET 5-PACK This set of five postcards, one each for Lakes Michigan, Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, was created as a tribute to Curt Teich & Co., the firm that revolutionized the postcard industry in the 1930s with their dreamy, photographic, hand-retouched “Art-Colortone” linen cards. They’re all ready for a stamp (this one would look particularly good) and a few witty lines to bring a little old-school joy to the mailboxes of your friends and family. FIELD NOTES set out to produce this set of five cards in a manner true to the way they were originally created. That began with a 1,300-mile road trip to shoot black-and-white film photographs of each of the lakes, like a Teich Co. traveling salesman.  After developing the film with expired Kodak D-76 in a canister in the sink, things got a bit more modern. They scanned the negatives and, having examined the original Teich production files, felt no qualms whatsoever about retouching and coloring t