Everything Looks Different to Mother – New Haven, Connecticut (1936)

Miss Marion Short was residing in the household of Mrs. Harris in Asbury Park, NJ.

Thousands of vacationers thronged to the Atlantic coast beaches of Asbury Park each summer.

Marian may have been staying at a private Boarding House.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbury_Park,_New_Jersey

We Have seen other postcard stories related to this resort town.

In August of 1938, Marion received a postcard from her mother.

Mother was in New Haven, the university town on the Long Island Sound in south-central Connecticut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut

The face of the postcard is a photograph of the “new” Peabody Museum”.

This structure of brown limestone in a French Gothic Style replaced an earlier Peabody Museum which was torn down in 1917.

The Peabody Museum contains one of the oldest, largest, and most prolific university natural history collections in the world.

The Peabody Museum, administered by Yale University, has grown to encompass additional buildings since the time of Mother’s visit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody_Museum_of_Natural_History

The Peabody Museum was the gift to Yale University of the philanthropist, George Peabody who rose from poverty to become a merchant and then a banker.

His success at the pinnacle of American banking led him to reside in London in the 1830’s.

Peabody had no sons, so he extended a partnership to Junius Spencer Morgan and their business went on to become the international firm of JP Morgan & Company.

George Peabody, remembering the deprivations of his youth, gave enormous sums of money to charitable projects related to education and housing – and he endowed foundations to continue the work.

He is considered the “father of American Philanthropy” and had a notable influence on Andrew Carnegie and Johns Hopkins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Peabody

The postcard was published by the Harold Hahn Company of New Haven.

On the reverse, Mother reports that “here I am at last in N(ew) H(aven) with Lillian.”

I am not sure where Mother resides, but she exclaims – “Everything looks so different to me.”

Fortunately, Mother has been treated well and she is “going down to Joe’s this P.M.”

One hopes that Marian was pleased by the postcard, that Mother continued to enjoy New Haven, and that the two had many experiences to share when they met again.

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