What's Your Oldest Cancelled Picture Postcard?

I have a few: One is an advertisement (but has a picture) postmarked 1893, one is 1895 Postmark with a picture of House of Parliament, London and a 1902 Postmark of Macupa Bridge, Mombasa B.E. Africa

This one is my oldest postcard, found in an antique store in Rapid City, SD. This postcard is marked for June 6th, 1905, sent from Milwaukee, WI and received in West Bend, WI the same day. It is of the Milwaukee Exposition Center, which burned down on June 4th, 1905. Not sure what the message was, maybe noting the tragic event?

Great addition, Desert Dweller! That one deserves to be posted in the architecture thread:
https://goscf.com/t/81368

Maybe this one

Just out of curiosity, for the purposes of this discussion, what constitutes a "picture postcard"?

Just looking at the items shown in this thread thus far we have items imprinted:

Post card
Postal card
Private mailing card
Mail card

Some are photographic in nature, whereas others are illustrated.

For example, would this qualify (oversized at 222mm x 120mm)?




Or these leather postcards?





I'm pretty sure this one does:

Wowzee, those are some impressive illegal use cards! Love the battleship revenues. That last one definitely fits with the topic at hand.

I'm not sure I can specifically define "picture postcard" but essentially one side has a picture, the other has an address. Private mailing cards, souvenir mail cards, leather cards, all of those fall under the picture postcard heading. Postal cards -- issued by a national postal service -- are generally grouped in their own category. Although there can be exceptions, like the 1893 Columbian Expo cards.

Your 1891 Edison Bros. "postal card" really isn't a postal card, since the U.S. Post Office Dept. didn't issue it. That's a *very* early card and the PO hadn't established size yet. All of these are really interesting thanks for sharing!

Might have posted this in another thread a while back but it manages to hit across a number of the boundaries mentioned above- It's a postal card that someone turned into a super early real photo card- sent in 1887.



why o why did I let this one go...

This is the best I can do for this excellent topic.

My oldest postal card is postmarked in 1896, but it is not a "Picture" post card. My oldest picture postcard is dated Dec 21, 1908 (French Styled Date). The story behind this postcard is most interesting.
Gervais Raoul Victor Lufbery (March 14, 1885 – May 19, 1918)[1] was a French and American fighter pilot and flying ace in World War I.

I nabbed a fairly early cancelled PPC recently, a Chicago card from 1902. I've found that the best search image to spot these are the 1898 issue stamps, in this case Scott 279.