The Ullman Manufacturing Company of New York City was a prolific publisher of postcards in the very early years of the 20th century.
From Google:
The Ullman Manufacturing Company was a prominent New York City-based publisher and printer founded around 1888. They mass-produced affordable lithographic art prints, postcards, theater posters, and jigsaw puzzles popular in middle-class Victorian and early 20th-century homes.
The company dissolved around December of 1929.
Many postcard stories in this group have featured postcards by Ullman, including these:
“No Place Like Home” (Sunbonnet figures-1906), “Storm Warning” (Courtship Humor – 1905), “Grandpa is Cornered” (Checkers Game -1898), “I Want to be a Farmer” (Boy -1906).
This postcard was not mailed; there are no personalities associated with it.
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The face of the postcard is a simple drawing of a child – dressed I blue overalls and holding the handles of a wheelbarrow.
Upon the barrow, a small dog sits, alert and patient.
At first glance, I assumed that the figure was a boy – but the features of the child could equally be those of a girl.
A very large straw hat covers most of the child’s head.
The hair does seem to frame the face which would appear more typically feminine.
Beneath the overalls, the child is wearing a patterned blouse or shirt, buttoned at the neck.
The printed title identifies “Me and Jack”.
The image was copyright in 1905 by the Ullman Manufacturing Company.
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Some collector (or collectors) ensured that the postcard survived in very good condition for more than 125 years.
The wide-open spaces of the green fields, and the companionship of the childhood pet, may have evoked happy memories of youth.
In every generation there are children who grow up in close companionship with a beloved pet.
