The Photographs of Karl Lewis

 A Karl Lewis Booklet

for the Fleet in California 

Karl Lewis was an American who spent  forty years of his life in Yokohama photographing and publishing picture postcards and cachet covers associated with the American Fleet.  He is widely famous for the thousands of covers that he sold from 1933 to 1941 with full-color cachets hand-painted by Japanese artists.  His early postcards depicted a sailor's life and included cartoons and captions.

These were for sale in Japan or by mail to overseas customers. Most of the cards have a description of the design in English, a three-digit or four-digit number, and an inscription identifying Karl Lewis as the source. 

Below are pages of the booklet