I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all. This postcard, with it’s wonderful poem by Ogden Nash (1902 – 1971) was copyrighted in…Read More…
Category: Postcards
“The Raggedy Man”
Poetry at Our House I like to tie one post in with the next, and the tie-in on this one is maybe a stretch, but the Coney Island post reminds me of the Dog Days of summer, as does this…Read More…
Walter Kellington, Coney Island, 1908
Walter, casually reclining for the camera, wrote, “This is my Picture – Walter Kellington. Taking on Sunday Aug. 30/08 at Coney Island. Clear Day.” This is very possibly the Walter E. Kellington that appears on a number of U.S. census…Read More…
Horse Shoe Falls, Niagara, Canada
“We will try and come up Sunday if it does not storm to hard. So won’t get there to Breakfast – good Bye. G[?] Hall. will drive” Addressed to: “Mrs. Vern Moyer, Baldwinsville, N.Y.” Dating the postcard The postmark on…Read More…
The Dam, Eaton Rapids, Michigan
Wow, I’m a Michigander but didn’t know this until now: Eaton Rapids is known as the Island City – it’s downtown is surrounded by water – the Grand River and the Grand’s Spring Brook tributary. The city has fourteen bridges…Read More…
Golda’s Old Watermill, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Divided back, Real Photo Postcard, unused. Publisher: The L.L. Cook Co., Milwaukee. Circa 1950s – 1960s. Price: $5.00 In keeping with a short “water theme” here’s a Real Photo Postcard showing a beautiful black and white shot of Golda’s Mill…Read More…
Soaring
I wonder what Gwen would have named this one. This is, like the back says, from an original block print by Gwen Frostic. Michigan-born Sarah Gwendolyn Frostic (1906 – 2001) was “…one of America’s foremost nature inspired artists.” I hadn’t…Read More…
One With Nature
Rosy-cheeked little girl in bonnet and blackbird (not really a red-winged blackbird, but maybe so with artistic license 😉 or maybe a starling with the light reflecting off the feathers) are one. By her expression we imagine this is a…Read More…
Willard Alton Griswold & Wilma May Pollitt
A well-identified couple of children (nice!) The back of this Real Photo Postcard with ACME (doesn’t that remind you of the Roadrunner and Wyle E. Coyote?) header gives names, birth dates and ages of the two babies, as well as…Read More…