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H or Handcolored cards are pastel versions of cards which usually appear in other series. The coloring, unlike that of the G or M series, is very pale, as the blue in the river on H 3 or the red roof on the Elyria OH high school building, H 4512, below. H 3, Grant's Tomb, New York, is a valuable little benchmark, existing as it does in the National Art Views line (No. 3) and in the Rotograph A series and H series.
An interesting handcolored card is a set of murals or frescoes in the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Illustrated here is the angel Uriel with Emerson's name on a plate above the scene.
Besides the H handcolored views on rough paper, illustrated above, Faulkner describes a set of db embossed greeting cards. She reports seeing these numbered from 3000 to 3048, but a friend has sent me numerous examples of these in xerox copies, showing greetings, women, and hand-drawn Dutch scenes, with numbers as high as 5174. The H on these has a slanted bar instead of a horizontal bar connecting the two uprights. I call them slant-H cards. Many of these cards are embossed greetings or holiday cards and may appear as a single number with various subseries numbers; otherwise, there are multiple uses of the same number, and the images usually vary only slightly from card to card. The following unusual Santas, sent by E. Lambert, all have the same number:
slant-H 3025
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