Started by Joseph Bryant in the early 1920s, Sunny Scenes Inc. was a successful Winter Park business from 1923 to 1949, producing hand-painted color greetings cards, note cards, and large pictures by using stencil and air brush techniques. During the heyday of its operation, the company employed 15 or so women in a two-story building at 421 Fairbanks Avenue, adjacent to the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad tracks that intersected Fairbanks Avenue. The largest number of postcards produced by Sunny Scenes are of Florida subjects, but the company also created postcards of 15 other states, such as Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Washington, as well as Cuba, Haiti, and Panama. This collection of 254 hand-painted postcards was donated to Rollins College by Dr. Jay Meching, Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California Davis in 2019.

Link: https://aspace.rollins.edu/repositories/2/resources/134

Submitted by: Wenxian Zhang, Rollins College Archives & Special Collections