Mrs. William P. Trego lived in Glen Moore, an unincorporated community in northwest Chester County of southeast Pennsylvania.
The Post Office now uses “Glenmoore”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenmoore,_Pennsylvania
In July of 1910, Mrs. Trego received a postcard from an unidentified friend.
The postcard was mailed from Philadelphia.
Glen Moore is about 41 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
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The face of the postcard is a cute drawing of two girls in large white sunbonnets occupying a pew in a quiet church.
The figures are holding decorously their hymnals or prayer books.
A sheathed parasol is tucked neatly beside the figure in the foreground.
Soft light shines through the stained-glass windows.
Beneath the figures is a rhyme:
“On Sunday morn all clean and sweet,
We go to church just down the street;
We never whisper nor do a thing
“Cept hold a book and try to sing:
We are the Sunbonnet twins you see,
And we are as good as we can be.”
The sunbonnet girls were first popularized by a postcard artist, Dorothy Dixon, but she was widely-imitated by others.
This image was copyrighted in 1908 by the publisher, The Ullman Manufacturing Company of New York.
The postcard was printed in the United States in the “Sunbonnet Twin” Series.
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On the reverse, the message begins without a greeting.
Mrs. Trego learns, “We still expect to be up on Saturday.”
There will be at least two visitors, “Anna and I to come in afternoon.”
Without a signature, we cannot identify the visitors or their relationship to Mrs. Trego.
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This is not the first example we have seen of “Sunbonnet” figures on a Sunday.
Some time ago, we saw two small figures in sunbonnets hurrying along a rural road toward a country church: “Going to Church” (1907)
The image in today’s post was badly marred by an error in printing.
I made digital corrections to the center of the face.
