I suppose someone out there in the world of postcards knows a whole lot more than I was able to learn about Vincent V. Colby, an artist responsible for a LOT of postcards in the 1910s or thereabouts. Anybody with this body of distinctive work must have had a fan who dug out informationContinue reading “Pick of the Litter”
Tag Archives: Postcards
Number One Column
There has been absolutely no call for equal time, but we did commit a modest oversight a few months back with a series of columns on what dogs do, and what babies do. Although there was a brief examination of the possibility that cats also did such things, we may have given you theContinue reading “Number One Column”
Drawers’ Choice
Once upon a time, mackerel jellybeans, one had to be so careful what one said. Every word had to be measured before uttered, lest it cause offense. And there were people on the alert for these offenses, so they could point them out to you and cry out to the world that you wereContinue reading “Drawers’ Choice”
Vintage Whine
I have called sending postcards the equivalent of texting or tweeting a century past. (The very mention of texting and tweeting makes me seem a century old to numerous people who moved past those things ten years ago, but I can’t see a lot of them reading my blog.) You could use a postcardContinue reading “Vintage Whine”
Hearts On the Plains
The romance of the Old West was established well before the West had gotten that old. Bill Nye, writing for the Boomerang in Cheyenne in the 1880s, liked to point out the difference between the West as it was lived and the West as people in the East liked to think of it. TheContinue reading “Hearts On the Plains”
Benched
We have, as the jewelry ads on television keep reminding us, coming up on Valentine’s Day. (The amount of chocolate in the stores should have tipped you off if you just don’t watch television these days.) As valentine’s Day itself is a Monday this year, which is my old joke blog day, I thoughtContinue reading “Benched”
We Can Do It
You will recall, from our last thrilling episode, that we were discussing postcards designed for servicemen to send home to let the folks at home know they were doing well, enjoying much of their life getting ready to fight the enemy. There were some humorous drawbacks to being employed by Uncle Sam—having to washContinue reading “We Can Do It”
Having Wonderful Time
Morale was a major concern during World War II. Not only was the government worried about the state of mind of people in the service, whether they were training for war or already busy in it, but there were the people at home. Waiting around for victory can be very wearing on the nerves,Continue reading “Having Wonderful Time”
Reality and Mystery
It has been a little while since we considered the charms of the rppc, or Real Photo Postcard. This, in case you missed it the first time around, is a sort of homemade postcard: you could make them in your own darkroom at home or you could ask your drugstore, or whoever processed yourContinue reading “Reality and Mystery”
Interpreting Artifacts
It has been a while since we delved into the archaeology of humor as reflected in postcard art of the past (as opposed to our rather shallow digs every Monday.) More postcards come in all the time, and some of the jokes are moderately obscure unless you’re old enough, or are thoroughly obscure despiteContinue reading “Interpreting Artifacts”
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