Happy New Year - PFF

I love this card because these are not the usual flowers I think of in the dead of winter.

And because of the cute little heart in the center of one of those gorgeous blooms!

I rescued this card from a dumpster years ago ... along with many others (a story for a different day).

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A Christmas Wish Postcard

This is one of the postcards I purchased from the "Farnsworth" collection at an estate sale. Most of the other cards were dated from 1900 to 1920 ... I don't know if this one falls in that time frame or not.

I wish you all a merry Christmas!

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Lady in Green - Christmas Card

I found this card in mom & dad's papers ... 

and fell in love with it's old fashioned charm.

There was no envelope included, but it must have been sent in December 1958 ... Because by December 1959 my brother Dow would have been included.

Merry Merry Christmas Postcard - PFF

One of the few Christmas postcards in my collection ...

I love the hand written message written on the icy window.

Although the intended recipient behind the glass has to read it backwards!

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"Dam Pig" Valentine

A valentine card found in Dad's papers ...
Because of the content of the note included, I was able to estimate the time frame as mid- to late 1940's.

It is signed from "Joan & Ada" (two of Dad's sisters)

Inside was a note:

"Dear Bud - I received your letter last night so will ans on this Valentine. Well if you get into the Navy or MM you might not get it. Well do you believe what Delorse says. Well I hardly do. I can't see a woman looking on him to support when shes got two kids to take care of. Have you see Betty yet. How is Aunt Irene & Jean. Well as for Neil probly don't want to see you. But you don't need to look for trouble. He wouldn't be alone. Well I didn't expect you to go with the girls. Oh have you seen Edna yet or any of them kids. Well write soon. Love Ada
the hog killed the goose and she had eggs in her already to lay. Dam pig."

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A Manly Christmas Card!

I fell in love with this Christmas card I found in Dad's papers.

So very masculine!

"When you wake

on Christmas morning

Hope you'll find your Christmas tree

Heaped with everything to make you

Just as happy as can be!"

to Bud from Joe and Joan Gibson

Fountain in Chicago, PFF

Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain By Night, Grant Park, Chicago (Illinois).

"Built as a memorial to her brother, Clarence, a patron and trustee of the Art Institute, Kate Buckingham presented this largest fountain of its kind in the world to the City of Chicago. It is located in Grant Park and by night, when colored lights play over its sparkling jets of water, it is an unusually beautiful sight."

To Mrs. Ada Bray, Gen. Del., Gooding Idaho

Dear Gran - am coming to see you - by the 13th any way. Am in Chicago now.

Love Buster

This is a beautiful old card, but it is so much more.

This card was sent to my (great) Grandma Bray by my dad ... after his release from a WWII prison camp in 1945 ... and is one of several he sent as he was transferred all over the US afterward.

These few words written so long ago suddenly have such history; such special meaning ...

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