Views of Old Philadelphia:
The Brightbill Postcard Collection
from THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA

APPENDIX I: PRINTER AND PUBLISHER CODES AND ADDRESSES

Introduction

This list defines the publisher codes Brightbill used in cataloguing the collection. It is ordered alphabetically; anchored links have been added for your convenience.

Table of Codes

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

A&S	?		APC	Art Postcard Company, Philadelphia
AARC	American Art Reproduction Co., Red Bank, NJ		APCC	Artvue Post Card Company, New York
AAS	Art Advertising Service, Philadelphia		APMC	American Pearl Manufacturing Company, Phildelphia and NY
AAW	American Art Works, West Haven, Connecticut		APP	Acme Press, Philadelphia
AC	Albertype Company, Brooklyn		AQS
ACBC	A. C. Bosselman and Company, New York		ARPCC	Architectural Post Card Company, Philadelphia
ACC	Art Color Company, Philadelphia		ASI	Arthur Strauss, Inc., New York
ACME	Acme Press		ASP	A. Schneider, Philadelphia
ACT	Arthur Capper, Topeka, Kansas		ASPC	Acme Sales Promotion Company, Philadelphia
AHAPC	American Historical Art Publishing Company, New York		ATFC	A.T.F. Company, Chicago
ALB	Albertype Company, Brooklyn		AVI	American Views, Inc., New York
ALC	Alpine Company, Philadelphia		AMSVC	Arcade Machine and Supply Company, Philadelphia
AMES	Ames Studio, Roxborough, Philadelphia, PA		ANCC	Acme Novelty and Calendar Company, New York
AMG	A. M. Godshall, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia

B

BACC	Busse Art Card Company, Philadelphia		BPP	Biddle Press, Philadelphia
BAPC	Brooklyn Art Publishing Company		BPPCC	Buffalo Paper and Post Card Company, Philadelphia
BECK	Beck Engraving/Gravure, Philadelphia		BSRC	B.S. Reynolds, Washington, DC
BMP	Bkruno Mann, Philadelphia		BUFF	Buffalo Aluminum Company
BPCC	Brody Post Card Company, Philadelphia		BWGD	B. Wallace Green, Druggist, Holmesburg, Philadelphia

C

CB	Contole Brothers, Philadelphia		CH	Continental Hotel, Philadelphia
CBP	Crumbie Brothers, Philadelpkhia		CHURCH	Churchman Company, New York
CC	Chilton Printing Company, Philadelphia		CNC	Central News Company, Philadelphia
CCA	C.C. Abel, Philadelphia		CNP	Continental Press, Philadelphia
CCGM	Curhan Company, Gloucester, Mass		CPB	Colourpicture, Boston, MA
CCNJ	Collotype Company, Elizabeth, NJ		CTC	Curt Teich and Company, Chicago
CCNY	Churchan Company, New York

D

DBL	Davidson Brothers, London and New York		DPC	Detroit Photographic Company
DC	Dreer Company, Chilton Printing Company		DPCC	Douglass Post-Card (& Machine) Company, Philadelphia
DEX	Dexter Press, West Nyack, NY		DSDI	Descendents of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence
DORM	Dorm Publishing Company, 908 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

E

E&DL	Edwards and Deutsch Litho Company, Chicago, IL		ENP	Charles H. Elliott Company, North Philadelphia
ECKC	E. C. Kropp Company, Milwaukee		ENPMA	Eastern National Park and Monument Association
EDGS	Engraving Divisiion, Geological Survey		ESC	Edward Stern and Company, Philadelphia
EFC	E. Frey and Company, New York		EXCEL
EMP	E. Moebius Phototype, Camden, NJ

F

FDS	Frankford Dispatch Newspaper, Philadelphia		FSAP	F. S. Avil, Philadelphia
FH	Franz Huld, New York		FVB	F. Von Bardeleben, New York & Germany

G

G&S	G & S Polychrome, New York		GLT	George L. Thompson
GAP			GNF	G.N. Falkenstein
GAW	George A. Wolf, Wilmington		GPS	Grogan Photo System, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin
GCC	Gragor-Connery Company		GRB	Greenebaum Brothers
GEM	G. E. Mousley		GSHS	George S. Harris and Sons, New York
GHS	Germantown Historical Society, Philadelphia		GWH	George W. Hales, Philadelphia

H

HACP	Historical Art Company, Philadelphia		HOMB	Haydon Ord Merrill, Bywood, Upper Darby, PA
HCUP	Houston Club, Philadelphia		HOME	Home Publishing Company, Philadelphia
HCLC	Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine		HOUSE	Household Post Card Club, Topeka, Kansas
HEB	Harry E. Boucher, Willow Grove Park		HPCC	Helios Post Card Company
HEHC	H.E. Houck and Company, Baltimore, Maryland		HPCS	Hales Post Card Shop, Philadelphia
HHBC	Horn and Hardart Baking Company, Philadelphia		HPPS	Hotel Philadelphian Print Shop, Philadelphia
HHC	Henry Heininger Company, New York		HSJ	H. S. Jacobs
HLW	Helen Louise Woerner, Philadelphia		HTW	H.T. White & Company, Philadelphia
HOLM	Holmes Press, Philadelphia		HWG	H. Wallace Green, Druggist, Holmesburg

I

I&MO	I. & M. Ottenheimer, Baltimore, MD		IPCC	Illustrated Post Card Company
IAPC	International Art Publishing Company, New York & Berlin		IPCN	Ives Process Company, New York
ICNA	Insurance Company of North America		ISN	Independent Service, New York
ICPCC	Inter-Coll. Post Card Company, Philadelphia		ISPCC	Imprint-Souvenir Post Card Company, New York
IMP	Imperial (Made in Germany)

J

JAB	J.A. Broatch, Middletown, CN		JHT	Joseph H. Tisdall, Philadelphia
JBA	John Bartram Association, Philadelphia		JKN	J. Koehler, New York
JBN	Julius Bandes, New York		JMC	J.M. Canfield, Publisher
JDC	John D. Cardinell, Official Publisher, Sesqui Centennial		JMJ	J. Murray Jordan, Philadelphia
JHA	J.H.Avil, Philadelphia		JMWP	J. McLaughlan, Woodside Park, Philadelphia

K

KPCC

Keystone Post Card Company, Philadelphia

L

L&B	Leeds & Biddle		LPN	Lumitone Photoprint, New York
LC	Lithochrome		LUTZ	Karl Lutz, Philadelphia
LHB	Lynn H. Boyer, Philadelphia and Wildwood		LVC	Leighton and Valentine Company, New York

M

MCPC	Manhattan Card Publishing Company		MNC	Metropolitan News Company, Boston and Germany
MGC	Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticut		MSP	Mercantile Studio, 4130 Haverford Avenue, Philadelphia
MLB	Maryland Litho, Baltimore, Maryland		MTP	MacTaggart Prints, Philadelphia
MLM	M. L. Metrochrome		MZE	Max Zeitler, Engraver, Philadelphia

N

NAVC	National Art Views Company, New York		NPI	Nostalgia Productions, Inc, Philadelphia
NDSC	National Drug Stores Corporation		NRCC
NEW	Newvochrome		NROP	Nora R. Ohl, Philadelphia
NPCC	National Post Card Company, Philadelphia

O

OSB

O. S. Bunnell, Philadelphia

OSLN

Osborne Ltd, New York

P

P&C	Philips & Company, Philadelphia		PMA	Philadelphia Museum of Art
PAA	Philadelphia Art Alliance		PMSI	Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, Philadelphia
PAC	Philadelphia Art Company, Philadelphia		POLY	Polychrome
PAFA	Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia		PPCC-1	Philadelphia Postal Card Company, Philadelphia
PAPC	Photo and Art Publishing Company, Philadelphia		PPCC-2	Philadelphia Postalcard Company, Philadelphia
PAPCC	Photo and Art Postal Card Company, New York		PPCC-3	Philadelphia Post Card Company, 124 N. Ninth St., Philadelphia
PCA	Penny Concert Association, East Baptist Church,Philadelphia		PPS	Process Photo Studios, Chicago
PCBF	Plastic Club Building Fund, Philadelphia		PS-1	P. Sander, Philadelphia and Atlantic City [PS in steeple]
PCDC	Post Card Distributing Company, Philadelphia		PS-2	same [Sanders Art Series in liberty bell]
PCPA	Publishers Circulation Promotion Association,Pittsburg		PS-3	same [eagle with shield]
PCUA	Post Card Union of America, Philadelphia		PS-4	P. Sander, New York
PENN	Penn Art Post Card Company, Philadelphia		PSDW	Philadelphia School of Design for Women
PGP	P. Gritzmann, Philadelphia		PSFS	Philadelphia Saving Fund Society
PHM	Philip H. Moore, Germantown, Philadelphia/Media		PSN	P. Snyder
PHSG	Philadelphia High School for Girls		PSS	Pelham Stationery Store, 6646 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia
PL	Public Ledger		PTPCC	Photo-Type Post Card Company, Philadelphia

Q

QCPC

Quaker City Post Card Company, Philadelphia

QPS

Quaker Photo Service, Philadelphia

R

RAS	Rau Art Studios, Inc., Philadelphia		RNS	R. Newell and Son
RBC	Riter Bros & Company, Philadelphia		ROC	Rosin and Company, Philadelphia
RC	Rotograph Company, New York		RPC	Royal Publishing Company, 530 Locust St., Philadelphia
RESC	Remington Supply Company		RSC	Rose Company, Philadelphia
RJH	R.J. Haig, Philadelphia/White City/Chestnut Hill		RTS	Raphael Tuck and Sons, London
RMM	Ruth Murray Miller, Philadelphia		RUT	Rutkovski, 823 So. 2nd Street, Philadelphia

S

S&C	Strawbridge & Clothier, Philadelphia		SPCC	Souvenir Post Card Company, New York
SBP	Staton Brothers Publishers, Germantown, Philadelphia, PA		SPNC	Standard Post Card and Novelty Company, Philadelphia
SCB	Steelograph Company, Brooklyn, New York		SPRING	Springfield Water Supply Company, Philadelphia
SHC	Sabold-Herb Co., Philadelphia		SPS	Sliker Photo Studio, Bridesburg, PA
SHFC	Samuel H. French and Company		SQ	Silbro Quality
SMC	Saltzburg's Merchandise Company, 53 N. Third St., Philadelphia		SS	Sun Studio
SMP	Stephen Moylan Press, Whitford, Pa.		STA	Standard Photo Service, Philadelphia
SPA	"Seeing Philadelphia" Automobiles, Keith Theatre, Philadelphia		STEIN	Stein Photo
SPC	Souvenir Publishing Company, Lynn, MA

T

TAC	Taylor Art Company, Philadelphia		TQV	Tichnor Quality Views
TC	Tachochrom Compnay, Berlin, NY, Philadelphia

U

UAPC	United Art Publishing Company		UPCC	Union Post Card Company, Philadelphia
UMC	Ullman Manufacturing Company, New York		UQCC	Unique Post Card Company, Publisher and Importer
UNC	Union News Company, New York

V

VS

Valentine and Sons, New York

W

WBC	William B. Cooper, Photographer, Medford, NJ		WMH	William McK. Heath, Philadelphia
WGMF	W. G. MacFarlane		WNJ	William N. Jennings, 1305 Arch Street, Philadelphia
WHR	William H. Rau, Philadelphia		WPCC	World Post Card Company, Philadelphia
WHS	W.H.S.		WPHI	West Philadelphia Card Company
WLB	William L. Burlock, Jr., Philadelphia		WRG	William R. Gordon, Philadelphia
WMC	Wanamaker Mailing Card, 1861 - Golden Jubilee - 1911, Philadelphia		WWNY	Walter Wirth, New York
WMCC	Watling Mfg. Co., Chicago		WYF	W. Yarwood, Frankford, Philadelphia

X

XRAY

X-Ray Studios, 200 N. 9th Street, 1216 N. 52nd Street, Philadelphia

Z

ZELL

Zellner Studio, 2914 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia

ZSP

Zoological Society of Philadelphia