C.R. Childs Company.

Dates:
Active 1900
Active 1950

Biographical notes:

Charles R. Childs was a prominent Chicago photographer and post card manufacturer. He produced postcards from the early 1900s and continued working into the 1950s. The C.R. Childs Company produced postcard images from the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The donor, Earl Moore, a postcard collector from Wooddale, Illinois, met Childs prior to his death about 1960. It was at that time that Moore acquired the Childs Company inventory of photographs, sample postcards, and glass negatives and was present the final day the Childs Company office on Lake Street was being cleared. According to Mr. Moore, Mr. Childs sent photographers out on the interurban trains from Chicago to various towns in the Midwest to capture views that could be saleable as postcard views. C.F. Walters, one of the photographers, contributed pictures to the collection.

From the description of C.R. Childs Company collection, [graphic], circa. 1900-1950. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 682136397

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