Young Winfred Carlson lived in Frontenac, now an unincorporated community on the Mississippi River – about 65 miles southeast of the Twin Cities. Established as
Some time ago, we saw the postcard drawing of a girl in blue, faded overalls. The artwork was titled, “My Overalls”. This postcard is a
It is unfortunate that this cute postcard was never mailed. While sending it through the post office increases the chances of a disfiguring mark or
There are some staples of humor that have endured for more than a century. One of these subjects for caricature is the snobbish or condescending
It may be that times of rapid change are marked also by nostalgia for the sights and patterns of life that are vanishing. In the
Some good advice does not go out of fashion. The M. T. Sheahan Company of Boston specialized in the publication of postcard mottos. The company
Gerhard Vogt lived in Moundridge, a small city in central Kansas (Between 1874 and 1880, thousands of Russian Mennonites fled Crimea and settled in this
The newspapers of William Randolph Hearst printed postcards as inducements to subscribers. (Earlier postcard stories related to newspaper postcards which depicted the San Francisco Earthquake,
Several nations have land within the Arctic Circle, where the tilt of the earth enables illumination by the sun at midnight for six months of
The American newspaper empire of William Randolph Hearst published this postcard illustration of a quintessential English event, the Fox hunt. Although fox hunting is now
This postcard was not mailed. The engraving of the horse-drawn sleigh was copyrighted by the “Illustrated Post Card & Novelty Company” of New York in
This comic postcard was published by the Royal Publishing Company of Philadelphia in 1906. A young woman sits demurely on a bench while her suitor
(I have shared this postcard to other sites because I cannot decipher the name of the town that is inscribed on the face -it ends
We met young Edmund Harnish in an earlier postcard story – he had received a postcard greeting of original art featuring boys playing marbles. That
“The Winding Stream” – Kennet Square (1906) For the Equinox, a nice example of postcard art illustrating the beauty of late Summer and early Fall.
Marriage is a Hard Way – 1906 One can find many postcards from the early 20th century that reflect on marriage and marriage roles. Some
Ralph Hopes to See Mollie in St.Paul – 1908 In May of 1908, Ralph Royer (Roger?) was traveling through Seattle, Washington. He mailed a postcard
Tellings stories from the past.
