Elliott Service Company Posters???

[prewarsports]

Nice post on news service photos. Just FYI, I have several 1921 Elliott News Service photos so they were around at least in '21 and I think a few years earlier. Thanks for the great additional info!

[fullcycled]

Hello all. I came across this old forum thread while googling some pictorial news posters from the Elliott News Co. I discovered white previewing a rural auction this week.

The ones I've found are 1920's. There are approximately 100 of them, very good condition, generally, most with original caption sheets intact. They are large format. I didn't measure, but I'd guess approx. 14 x 20. Subjects are some military and aviation but mainly general news of the day.

If a stranger to your forums could beg some advice, what would be a reasonable amount to pay for approximately 100 of these at auction (I'm thinking no more than a low wholesale price), let's assume common / general subject matter with maybe a few standouts of special interest?

I collect odd photography formats and ideally I'd like to ebay a few to offset purchase price and keep the others.

Thanks y'all, you've already provided a great source of info. on these apparently little-known relics of news photography.

[Hankphenom]

I've always thought these were the biggest bargains in the hobby, great display pieces with fabulous images. I have a bunch of "Associated News Service" posters, published by Elliot News Service, with two holes in the top to fit some kind of display device, probably at news stands. I also have Elliot News Service poster of the 1924 and 1925 Washington pennant winners with ads for Mazda auto lamps. Over the years, I've seen numerous other brands with different format news posters, including a panorama-style poster for the 1924 World Series by "Fotoform News." I'd love to include the pictures I've taken of these, but the Net54 attachment program will never allow those taken by my camera to upload. They are JPGs of 3.65 MB, too big, perhaps? Copy and paste doesn't work, either.

[slidekellyslide]

Hank, there are numerous online image resizers. Easy to google them. What I do though if I have a pic that is too big I just load it up on my facebook page and then save the image to my computer. Facebook I've found automatically reduces the file size of photos.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Hank, there are numerous online image resizers. Easy to google them. What I do though if I have a pic that is too big I just load it up on my facebook page and then save the image to my computer. Facebook I've found automatically reduces the file size of photos.

Thanks, guys. Dan, do you know offhand if you can post photos on FB without them appearing on your timeline or news feed? And Rob, I just get an "upload failed" message from Net54 when I browse my pictures file and click on one I want to attach to my post. I will get on the Google machine and see about resizing the photos, I guess the idea is to make them smaller than the Net54 maximum size before I try to post them?

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

Thanks, guys. Dan, do you know offhand if you can post photos on FB without them appearing on your timeline or news feed? And Rob, I just get an "upload failed" message from Net54 when I browse my pictures file and click on one I want to attach to my post. I will get on the Google machine and see about resizing the photos, I guess the idea is to make them smaller than the Net54 maximum size before I try to post them?

Hank, it will show on your timeline, but I usually just post them, then save them to my computer, then delete them off of facebook. Takes less than a minute.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Hank, it will show on your timeline, but I usually just post them, then save them to my computer, then delete them off of facebook. Takes less than a minute.

But that way wouldn't my FB friends see these on the news feed, which I wouldn't want? I'll try to figure out how to resize them myself.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

I've always thought these were the biggest bargains in the hobby, great display pieces with fabulous images. I have a bunch of "Associated News Service" posters, published by Elliot News Service, with two holes in the top to fit some kind of display device, probably at news stands. I also have Elliot News Service poster of the 1924 and 1925 Washington pennant winners with ads for Mazda auto lamps. Over the years, I've seen numerous other brands with different format news posters, including a panorama-style poster for the 1924 World Series by "Fotoform News." I'd love to include the pictures I've taken of these, but the Net54 attachment program will never allow those taken by my camera to upload. They are JPGs of 3.65 MB, too big, perhaps? Copy and paste doesn't work, either.

Hank, I'm pretty sure Net54 does the resizing. I post multiple MB pictures on here all the time.