This postcard is labeled “From the Jew-free Hotel Kölner Hof, Frankfurt a. M., opposite the right-hand exit from the main railway station.” It is postmarked July 29, 1901. Antisemitic postcards were a rarity before 1890, but they proliferated rapidly in the last decade of the nineteenth century.
Source: Back of a postcard with a defamatory caricature from the
“Jew-free” Hotel Kölner Hof in Frankfurt am Main. Postcard (29. July
1901). Place of production: Frankfurt am Main.
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Helmut Gold and Georg Heuberger, eds., Abgestempelt. Judenfeindliche Postkarten. Auf der Grundlage der Sammlung Wolfgang Haney. Eine Publikation der Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation und des Jüdischen Museums Frankfurt am Main. Heidelberg: Umschau/Braus, 1999.