Los Angeles Photo Archive
Printed by the Longshaw Card Company of Los Angeles. Linen-finished postcards issued between the 1930s and 1940s.
Souvenir Views
Henry Lowe Longshaw, a former E. F. Clement Company card salesman, owned the Longshaw Card Company. He mainly produced view cards and cards with pictures of the homes of movie stars and some pin-up cards. In business from the late 1930s to 1957, many of his cards are known to have orange borders, like the Santa Catalina Island card series.
Longshaw had most of his cards printed by Mission Engraving Company, 421 E. 6th St., Los Angeles, with whom he shared the building. Longshaw did go on to produce higher-quality images but could not compete with lower-priced cards; thus, he closed in 1957.
