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Postcard of the Day
Oct. 19th, 2022 11:28 amMessage Week concludes today, here at Postcard of the Day, with this bare-bones offering:
And here's the front:
It may not be quite as weird as it seems that SEA didn't include any message to Miss Lizzie Boone, in that this card is an early "divided back" card, with the image side still the way they did undivided-back cards, before it became legal to put any more than the address on the address side. (That's why the little bit of blank space is there on the front, below the label of what we're looking at.) The new practice started in March of 1907, and this card's from August that year. So maybe SEA just hadn't adjusted to having the option of writing something.
Nonetheless, given that the image is of a grave, it seems kinda heavy, or even ominous, to me, here 115 years later. Or at least a little Halloween-y, cuz I'm in Halloween season now. Could be SEA was just communicating notice that they'd arrived in Sandwich. Or maybe Lizzie was a known fan of Jefferson? (Probably not that.)
And this concludes this stretch of messaged card images.
And here's the front:
It may not be quite as weird as it seems that SEA didn't include any message to Miss Lizzie Boone, in that this card is an early "divided back" card, with the image side still the way they did undivided-back cards, before it became legal to put any more than the address on the address side. (That's why the little bit of blank space is there on the front, below the label of what we're looking at.) The new practice started in March of 1907, and this card's from August that year. So maybe SEA just hadn't adjusted to having the option of writing something.
Nonetheless, given that the image is of a grave, it seems kinda heavy, or even ominous, to me, here 115 years later. Or at least a little Halloween-y, cuz I'm in Halloween season now. Could be SEA was just communicating notice that they'd arrived in Sandwich. Or maybe Lizzie was a known fan of Jefferson? (Probably not that.)
And this concludes this stretch of messaged card images.
