The Milton Post Card

The 'Milton Post Cards' were published in Great Britain from around 1900. By 1902, Gustave Woolstone had registered the Milton trademark - the firm operated off Milton Street in the Postcard Mile of the City of London. Milton was the business name of Woolstone Brothers, a company registered by Gustave in 1925 at Aldersgate Street in London. The company made countless topographical and novelty postcards. Milton also published series with British stage actors, such as the Photolette series during the 1900s and the Milton Character Sketches series during the 1910s. In the early 1930s, a series of 'Real Photo Postcards' with portraits of Hollywood stars followed. The company stopped publishing postcards in 1933. We selected 25 Milton postcards from our collections for this post.


British postcard in the Milton Photolette Series, no. 42 by Woolstone Bros., London. Sent by mail in 1908. Ada Reeve.


British postcard by Milton, Woolstone Bros, London E.C. in The Milton Character Sketches series, no. 306, 1. Caption: Billie Burke. A fair Samaritan.


British postcard by Milton, no. 21A. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Joan Crawford.


British postcard by Milton, no. 25 A. Photo: Paramount Pictures. Marlene Dietrich.


British postcard by Milton, no. 27. A. Photo: Universal Pictures. Sally Eilers.


British postcard by Milton, no. 29. A. Photo: First National Films. Kay Francis.


British postcard by Milton, no. 41. Photo: Paramount Pictures. Miriam Hopkins.


British postcard by Milton, no. 44. Photo: Paramount Pictures. Charles Laughton.


British postcard by Milton, no. 47. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. Myrna Loy.


British postcard by Milton, no. 53. Photo: Universal Pictures. Douglass Montgomery.


British postcard by Milton, no. 56.B. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Maureen O'Sullivan.


British postcard by Milton, no. 72. Photo: Fox Films. Heather Angel.


British postcard by Milton, no. 77. Photo: Warner Bros / Vitaphone. Ann Dvorak.


British postcard by Milton, no. 87. Photo: Warner Bros & Vitaphone Pictures. Barbara Stanwyck.


British postcard by Milton, no. 88a. Photo: Universal Pictures. Gloria Stuart.


British postcard by Milton Postcard, no. 93. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Robert Young.


British postcard by Milton, no. 99. Photo: Fox Films. Claire Trevor.


British postcard by Milton, no. 95. Photo: Radio Pictures (RKO). Charles Boyer.


British postcard by Milton, no. 104. Photo: Paramount Pictures. Elissa Landi.


British postcard by Milton, no. 109. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Elizabeth Allan.


British postcard by Milton, no. 111. Photo: Fox Films. Rochelle Hudson.


British postcard by Milton, no. 137. Photo: Fox Films. Bruce Cabot.


British postcard by Milton, no. 147. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. Johnny Weissmuller.


British postcard by Milton, no. 149. Photo: British & Dominions Films. Fay Wray.


British postcard by Milton, no. 152. Photo: First National Films. Errol Flynn.

Sources: Feel Falkirk, rthcards and National Portrait Gallery.