October 2008 – Page 2 – Wild Postcards

25 October 2008

Glory to Great October! Greeting Card

This is a Soviet greeting card, I suppose, measuring about 6-7/8 inches by 3-3/4 inches. I assume that, since Christmas...

24 October 2008

There are more than a few real photo postcards out there depicting Patrick J. “Paddy” Carroll, his wife Beatrice, and...

23 October 2008

The description on the back of this card is so long that there’s only about an inch of space in...

22 October 2008

This is an early photochrome postcard from the Philco Publishing Company of London. For some reason unknown to me, the...

21 October 2008

This real photo postcard is printed on AZO paper and, judging from the stampbox, was produced sometime between 1904 and...

20 October 2008

This is a Union Pacific Railroad Pictorial Post Card — basically a commercial that you get to pay for. “A...

19 October 2008

Ramona was an 1884 novel by Helen Hunt Jackson which described the travails endured by our young half-Scottish half-Native American...

18 October 2008

You have to hand it to the copywriter at the Asheville Post Card Company who came up with this pun...