Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts

Saturday, December 22, 2012

A Merry Christmas


Postcard Caption:
A Merry Christmas and
A Happy New Year
The Coast of Arms - The University of Chicago
Postcard Message:
To Mr. and Mrs. Frost / The Season's Greetings / from the / Indous(?) / 1913
I wish they'd had these postcard when I was going to school at the University of Chicago!

Here's the coat of arms on Burton-Judson Courts, where I lived my first year in college.

University of Chicago - Burton Judson Courts

Friday, December 21, 2012

I Wish You Might See the Orange Groves

Christmas Greetings from Florida

Postmarked 21 December 1923
Lakeland, Florida

Message:
Lakeland, Fla- / Dear Edna / I hope you are having a nice time this winter. it seems like summer here. I wish you might see the Orang Groves and flowers here. / From Mr. and Mrs. Gifford

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Easter Greeting

Easter Greeting


Postmarked 5 April 1909 
Akron, Ohio

Postcard Message:
Dearest: I've just discovered that it's I not you who owe the letter so I will write this week sometime. Hope you are well and happy as this leaves me. / Lovingly, Flora

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

We Will Have a Fine Time Finding Easter Nests

Easter Best Wishes

Postmarked 3 April 1915 
Fostoria, Michigan

Postcard Message:
Hello Irvin you better come down for Easter. Gad we will have a fine time. Finding Easter nests. do you go to school. I go to school I play ball and have a good time. From Hermann. 
I had to get this card because of the pug-looking dog on the front. Now, I am wondering if Easter nests are a precursor to Easter baskets. 

Thursday, March 15, 2012

A Right Good Time

A Right Good Time

Postmarked 15 March 1907

Postcard Caption:
A Right Good Time on St. Patrick's Day

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Saturday, December 31, 2011

A Happy New Year

New Year - S\

Postmarked 31 December 1906
Smiths-Falls, Ontario, Canada


Message:
January 1, 1907 / Wishing you and yours a very Happy New Year. / Agnes R. Smith

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Thursday, November 24, 2011

A Joyful Thanksgiving

Joyful Thanksgiving

Postmarked 23 November 1910
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Postcard Caption:
A JOYFUL THANKSGIVING
There's so much to be thankful for
Complain and grumble as we may,
We never stop to realize
The wealth that is ours today.
Postcard Message:
Anna from May

Monday, October 31, 2011

Happy Halloween!

I received this wonderful handpainted Halloween pug postcard from an online swap.


Monday, July 4, 2011

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Easter Greetings

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The message has very little to do with Easter...

Easter Greetings_0002

Message:
Dear Sister. I thought I woud write a f-- lens hope you are oll well and we are the same (?). I dont like it here. Much to wood here. I dont think I staye here very long. I like it out east Better than here. I -- gowing to stay here very long. / Youre Brother George / Did you get that phone / and that Raszer / That telphone that is from -- irland --

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

A Bit O' Blarney

St. Patrick's Auto

Postmarked 16 March 1910
-- Village, New York


Message:
Many happy returns of the day. / CHAS / Dana / Marion

Friday, March 4, 2011

Tuck Postcards Database

Allan Braun, James Lewis Lowe, and Richard Moulton have created an online database for Raphael Tuck & Sons postcards. The lovely site is currently available to the public in a beta form.

Tuck was formed in the late 1800s, and their lobbying efforts helped change the regulations on postcards in the United States. They were active until the 1960s.

Here's a St. Patrick's Day card from Raphael Tuck & Sons:

Tuck - St Patrick's Day

Monday, February 14, 2011

My Valentine Fair

Valentine's Day 2011

George and Walter gave me a vintage Valentine's Day postcard. Isn't it the sweetest?

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Happy 2011!

2011 New Year PCs_0003

Postmarked 28 December 2010

Originally, I wanted to find a vintage postcard that could in some way provide a commentary or reflection on yesterday's shootings in Arizona. If not that, then a call for peace and healing. But I couldn't find what I was looking for, so I went another direction.

Although this blog usually features vintage postcards, I find this handmade PC I received interesting, fun, and hopeful. I am hopeful, too, that the events in Arizona will encourage soul-searching, compassion, and understanding instead of more bitterness and divisiveness. May it be so in 2011.
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