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Old Pictures and Postcards of Llamas
The modern spelling for vicugna is vicuña.
This Chilean postcard
of a herd of llamas
has a photograph
that was taken in the 1930s.
This 1945 postcard
from Rio Ceballos
is titled
Cristo del Ñuporá
“La Negrita Florinda”.
Juan Carlos Carri of Buenos Aires, Argentina saw this postcard and sent
the photo on the right which was taken in 1961 and wrote the following:
The “Cristo de Ñu-Porá” is one of the tourist attractions of the village of Río Ceballos, and it is surrounded by very beautiful green hills. The llama is “imported” from the north of Argentine, it’s not common now, because the man, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, etc., have a wide distribution in the country.
Riding the llama are my brothers Jorge and Hugo Carri.
A postcard which was
mailed from Bolivia in 1942.
The title at the bottom is
“Grupo de llamas - Bolivia”.
This postcard from Peru
dates from 1910.
It is titled
“Un Grupo de llamas”.
This postcard,
mailed from La Paz, Bolivia
shows alpacas.
This Peruvian postcard
dates from around 1950.
The stones in the background
are part of the Incan fortress
of Sacsayhuaman,
which overlooks Cuzco.
The title of this hand-coloured engraving, which was published in 1825, is “Chimborazo as seen from the Plain of Tapia”.
Chimborazo, at 20,561 feet, one of the highest mountains in the Andes is located in Ecuador. It is one of the first mountains that the Conquistadores would have seen on their way to Peru and that is the reason that we called one of our Conquistador offsprings Chimborazo.
The writing
on the bottom
of this
Ecuadorian postcard
from 1953
is “Indios de Pujili”.
Pujili
is a small town
about halfway
between Quito and
Mount Chimborazo.
This picture of a
“vicugna” or vicuña
is from an
Illustrated Encyclopedia
published in 1856.
I have no information
on where this postcard
is from.
This postcard, from the 1950s
shows the Sterling-Alaska Fur & Game Farm
in Lake Placid, New York.
The show was called: “St. Nick’s Animals”
and the keeper was showing a llama
(they were rather rare in the area back then)
with a sheep and a goat on a stage.
One sign advertises:
“Notice — Deer Will Eat from Your Hands,
Buy Food at Machines and Get Good Pictures.”
There are old postcards on page one.
There are mostly metal objects with llamas on page two.
There are musical instruments with llamas on page three.
There is more miscellaneous llama trivia on page four.
There are cartoon llamas on page six.
There are llama toys on page seven.
There is llama pottery on page eight.
There are people and companies on page nine.
There are stamps showing llamas on page ten.
There are paintings and prints on page eleven.
There is llama jewelry on page twelve.
There are fabric items on page thirteen.
There are still more postcards and prints on page fourteen.
There are llama music groups on page fifteen.
There is more llama jewelry on page sixteen.
There are table oddments on page seventeen.
There are more postcards on page eighteen.
There are more llama paintings on page nineteen.
There are more llama prints on page twenty.
There are miscellaneous llama items on page twenty-one.
There are still more llama postcards on page twenty-two.
There are llamas in advertising on page twenty-three.
There is more miscellaneous llama stuff on page twenty-four.
There are still more llama postcards on page twenty-five.
There are old stereoviews of llamas on page twenty-six. (anaglyph version)
There are old llama books on page twenty-seven.
There are old trading cards on page twenty-eight.
There are still more llama postcards on page twenty-nine.
There are unusal llama stamps on page thirty.
There are llamas pulling carts on page thirty-one.
There are llama crests and signs on page thirty-two.
There are Christmas llamas on page thirty-three.
There are more llama postcards on page thirty-four.
There are View-Master pictures of llamas on page thirty-five.
There are more llama postcards on page thirty-six.
There are more llama postcards on page thirty-seven.
There are even more llama postcards on page thirty-eight.
There are ads with llamas on page thirty-nine.
There are llama things you can’t live without on page forty.
There are llama trading cards on page forty-one.
There are more llama trading cards on page forty-two.
There are postcards of llamas in zoos on page forty-three.
There are Peruvian postcards on page forty-four.
There are stereoviews of alpacas on page forty-five. (anaglyph version)
There are more stereoviews of llamas on page forty-six. (anaglyph version)
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