Samuel L. Schmucker
1879-1921
American
born in
Reading, Pennsylvania
Even though Schmucker’s right hand was partially paralyzed from the polio he suffered as a child, he sill perused a career in the arts. After attending the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and Howard Pyle’s school in Drexel he began working as a commercial artist in 1905 by drawing fashion illustrations for the Philadelphia Daily Press. He soon found additional work making illustrations for the Detroit Publishing Company. They were placed on 52 postcards divided into 8 sets entitled Smokes, Mermaid, Drinks, Butterfly Girls, Childhood Days, Gnomes, International Girls, and Fairy Queen. This success lead him to design many more holiday postcards for the John Winsch Company. He used his wife, Katherine Rice as a model for most of these cards, and through these consistent portrayals she became known as the Winsch Girl, except on Detroit cards where she was referred to as the Schmucker Girl. His style is composed of a strange hybrid between the American Brandywine tradition and European Art Nouveau. Schmucker moved to Wilmington, Delaware in 1910 but only three years later he moved again, this time to New York in search of work. There he found employment decorating all sorts of objects. Starting in 1915 he would produce another 130 postcard designs for the National Art Company, but he finally took a job as an accountant in 1917 to make ends meet.
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| Schmucker/ Halloween Faces/ c1913 |
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| Schmucker/a starry halloween if you |
4972 back of card
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| Schmucker/ Halloween Faces/ these dreadful |
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| Schmucker/ Halloween Surprises |
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| Schmucker/ Halloween Gambols |
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| Schmucker/ set |
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| Schmucker 3.1-2/ A Halloween shadow |
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| Schmucker 3.1-2/ A Halloween shadow |
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| Schmucker 3.1-3/ Halloween Greeting/ c1910 |
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| Schmucker/ A Halloween Morning |
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| Schmucker/ A Halloween Wish/ c1914 |
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| Schmucker/ A Halloween Wish/ corn |
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| Schmucker/ A Halloween Wish |
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| Schmucker series 450/21 3938/ The Magic Halloween |
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| Schmucker/ A Starry Halloween/ Corn Cob |
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| Schmucker/ Best Halloween Wishes |
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| Schmucker/ All Halloween |
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| Schmucker/ The Halloween Night |
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| Schmucker/ A Halloween Morning |
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| Schmucker/ A Halloween Wish |
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| Schmucker/ A Halloween Morning |
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| Schmucker/ A Halloween Nightmare/ c1913 |
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| Schmucker/ A Halloween Wish/ Winsch 2.3-4 |
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| Schmucker/ A Halloween Wish/ 2.3-5/ color |
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| Schmucker/ A Halloween Wish/ 2.3-5/ sepia |
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| Schmucker/ A Halloween Wish/ on Halloween |
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| Schmucker/ A Happy Halloween |
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| Schmucker/ A Starry Halloween |
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| Schmucker/ Halloween Jollity/ Winsch/ c1913 |
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| Schmucker/ A Starry Halloween |
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| Schmucker/ All Halloween/ green |
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| Schmucker/ All Halloween/ red/ c1911 |
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| Schmucker/ Greetings at Halloween/ c1911 |
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| Schmucker/ Greetings at Halloween/ the time has come |
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| Schmucker/ Halloween/ c1913 |
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| Schmucker/ Halloween/ c1913 |
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| Schmucker/ Halloween/ c1913 |
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| Schmucker/ Halloween/ c1913 |
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| Schmucker/ Halloween Friends/ blue words |
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| Schmucker/ Halloween Friends/ purple words |
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| Schmucker/ Halloween Greeting/ the moon |
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| Schmucker/ Halloween Greeting/ witch and two demons |
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| Schmucker/ A Halloween Dance/ c1912 |
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| Schmucker/ Halloween Greetings/ the clock |
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| Schmucker /Halloween Greetings/ Tuck 100-9 |
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| Schmucker/ Bats and owls Tuck |
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| Schmucker/ Sing a song |
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| Schmucker/ Halloween Wishes |
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| Schmucker/ Witches, fays |
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| Schmucker/ Halloween Night/ strange things/ c1913 |
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| Schmucker/ Halloween Pumpkins |
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| Schmucker/ Halloween Time |
This card was published by John Winsch in America, who "crafted" the card.
It was then printed in Germany as all the very best cards were before WWII.
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| Schmucker/ On Halloween |
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| Schmucker The Halloween Cauldron |
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| Schmucker/ The Halloween Lantern/ c1914 |
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| Schmucker/ The Halloween Lantern/ Halloween Greetings |
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| Schmucker/ The Halloween Lantern/ Winch/grey |
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| Schmucker/The Halloween Lantern/green |
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| A Halloween Morning |
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| Schmucker-Winsch/The Halloween Lantern/tan |
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| Schmucker/ The Halloween Lantern |
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| Schmucker/ The Halloween Witch's Wand/ c1912 |
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| Schmucker/ The Magic Halloween |
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| Schmucker/ To Miss Halloween |
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Schmucker 552/ All Halloween
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| Schmucker?/A Happy Halloween/ may |
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| Schmucker?/ I'll be your pumpkin |
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