I am feeling VERY fortunate today...

A second copy of this scarce postcard printed by Fred Locke around 1906 surfaced and I was able to grab it for my collection of Fred Locke ephemera related to the early Locke insulators I collect . It has been many months since I added anything new to my core Fred M. Locke collection so this was a nice surprise . Fred was an avid and very talented artistic photographer. He was known locally and regionally in his day for making beautiful photographic prints of rural scenes which were burned in the printing process so that the clouds would show more vividly then normally seen in most photographs made with equipment available at the beginning of the 20th century . He had a photo printing lab in his basement where he made and experimented with both prints and postcards of his images . At least half a dozen different photo postcards and dozens of different prints of images he created are known to have survived that are in the hands of the Locke family and various collectors today .