This comic postcard was given to Mrs. Dell Westfall in October of 1910.

Because the postcard was not mailed, the brief inscription on the reverse is the only clue we have to its provenance.

At first glance, I assumed that the “out of sight” tag referred to the figure behind the pages of a newspaper – but that is clearly erroneous.

The title refers to the small man, wearing a bowler hat, who is pressed between the generous figures of two women wearing heavy cold-weather coats.

Each of the substantial female figures appears unlikely to move, and our hero has the appearance of a trapped man.

The initials, possibly “F. R. M.”, appear to identify the artist.

There are on-line guides to identifying postcard artists, so this is an area of follow-up research.

The postcard was published by the A.T. F. Company of Chicago.

An on-line guide to postcard publishers offers only this information:

“The A.T.F. Company, Chicago seems to have been active from 1905 and continued into the divided back era. They specialized in views of Illinois and humorous cards.”

It seems that Mrs. Westfall appreciated the humorous postcard as it was preserved in very good condition for more than a century.