This humorous postcard was neither addressed nor mailed, so there is no personal story attached to it. Published by the English firm of Bamforth &
Winifred Carlson was growing up in the town of Frontenac, an unincorporated community on the Mississippi River in southeast Minnesota. The coming of the “Chicago,
Here is another example of postcard art celebrating a popular song of the early 20th century. In 1904, B. Feldman and Company of London published
There are numerous songs of the music hall and vaudeville era that explore the sadness or misery hidden beneath a bright and blooming appearance. “After
This comic postcard from the Bamforth Company touches on a topic that was not always humorous to audiences of the early 20th Century. Although 15
Tellings stories from the past.