There has long been a fascination with Native Americans, and photographers have recorded images through the years, and many have been produced as postcards. I can recall as a child going around a turning postcard rack while on vacation, and picking out Indian postcards to buy. Later I was introduced to the older Indian postcards at antique shops. My parents collected antiques and I would make myself happy with a shoe box of postcards and pick out a few there too. Most of what I was buying was the colorful postcards showing Indian men, women, and children in their buckskin clothing. As I learned more about postcard collecting, I began taking a closer look at the black and white postcards and those that showed Indians in what we now term real photo postcards.

These became favorites and I added to this part of my collection. Back in the 1960's and 1970's the rage then was for the "pretty colorful holiday greetings" and those black and white real photo and printed postcards were considered dull and were not so popular. I liked seeing what everything looked like in the earlier days and these were what I collected. Antique shop prices in those days were five cents or maybe six for a quarter!

In the late 1970s under the leadership of Bert P Jones, we formed the Wichita Postcard Club. We found several local collectors who shared this postcard interest, and in a short time we began thinking about how we might be able to see more postcards to buy. We had several local antique shops that had postcards, and there were one or two antique shows in Wichita every year and that was all. And so, we decided to host a Wichita Postcard Club Show and bring the dealers to us. The rest is history, and in 2005 we will host our 28th Annual Show on October 15 & 16.

We began to look at our postcards and to sort them in various ways. In the Indian category we separated the printed from the real photo views and started noticing publishers and photographers. To make a long story short, we began to checklist the postcards of this Taloga, Oklahoma photographer named Dedrick in the monthly Wichita Postcard Club News. Club members began sorting through their own collections and finding more Dedrick postcards and reporting them to us and this list grew, and more of the numbers were filled in with titles.

During those years we had a Wichita Postcard Club member by the name of Pat Kelsey who came each year to our show all the way from Seattle, Washington. She returned home one year and told her husband (who was also a postcard collector and had a bent for research) about this interest in Dedrick postcards. The name must have clicked in some way, for Harry Kelsey found a man named Lord Edwin Nelson Dedrick, who was retired from the maintenance department of the Veterans Administration Hospital at American Lake, Tacoma, Washington. An appropriate time for an interview was set up and Harry went to meet this man who turned out to be the photographer Dedrick's son.

Harry went on to write up the interview and this was published in the Wichita Postcard Club News along with still another updated version of the checklist. We now knew that the photographer was John Virgil Dedrick.

Bringing all of this up to the present time line, I gave a talk at our Wichita Postcard Club's January 2003 monthly club meeting and Dennis McBurney was present that evening. He became so enthusiastic about the Dedrick postcards, and the story behind them, that he offered to use his computer skills and to professionally scan and record each image. What Dennis has done is to publish a wonderful reference work that is titled,

"Numbered & Illustrated Checklist for Real Photograph Post Cards by John V. Dedrick, Taloga, Oklahoma: Native Americans, Cowboys, Settlers, Sod Houses, Buildings, Wildlife, and a Few Surprises." This publication is three holed punched so it will fit into any standard three ring binder. Each and every known Dedrick postcard is beautifully illustrated and described, beginning with number 1 and going through number 123. This is a must have publication for reference libraries, and collectors of postcards and photographic images that are detailed in the title above. The Wichita Postcard Club has published this work and any profits made from this publication are returned to the club.

The cost of this Numbered & Illustrated Checklist…is $12.00 postpaid. You may order them from Dennis McBurney, 921 E 2nd Street, Douglass, Kansas 67039.

The Wichita Postcard Club through Dennis McBurney is asking friends to look through their postcard collections and hopefully come up with some of the 'missing' numbers. If you happen to have one or more of these numbered images (#11, 18, 38, 62, 66, 117, 119, or 122) please be in contact with Dennis. His email address is Dennis.mcburney@douglassks.net We thank everyone who has helped on this project through the years.

Here you will see three of the Dedrick postcards. No. 13 showing the Sweet-Water Family; No. 14 Crescent School 1901; and No. 42 Lucille Mullhall at the 101 Ranche (sic) in Oklahoma. These give you an idea of the quality of most of the Dedrick images and show why collectors admire his photographic skills.

1. Ralph Bowman, thousands of listings, click on thepapergallery2 05.06
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Our friend Jim Mehrer conducts bimonthly Postal History Mail Bid Sales containing thousands of individually described covers and postcards. Jim also offers a wide selection of reference literature titles and storage supplies for collectors and dealers. To visit Jim Mehrer's Postal History, click HERE.

 Are you looking for a postcard show or stamp show near you? Visit Jim Mehrer's Show Calendar for Collectors of Stamps, Postal History and Postcards by clicking HERE.

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WANTED TO BUY: PRE-1950 VINITA OKLAHOMA POSTCARDS AND OTHER ITEMS. Jim, jmtaylor@ipa.net....05.06

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WANTED TO BUY: TEXANA, OLD EARLY TEXAS HISTORICAL ITEMS PHOTOS AND POSTCARDS. Wallace, rebltexn@comcast.net 05.06

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FOR SALE: Newsletter Classifieds, see below, or email for details Classifieds@CourthouseSquare.net, Newsletter is Free, Classifieds are inexpensive. 05.06

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BUYER: We are always buying collections and accumulations, all state views and topical postcards, also travel, photos, brochures, movie, hollywood, props, costumes, stills, call Ralph, Paper Gallery, 1-760-749-9737, ralph@papergallery.com 05.06

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Jim Taylor

Courthouse Square Antique Cards

PO Box 399

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