Sunday, June 21, 2009

First Postcards to Share

Here are two early cards of people in canoes.


The first one is depicts a large number of people attending a band concert in Detroit in canoes. It is fun to lo0k at the young men with their bowties and the young women with their parasols and wonder if they ever
knew they were put on a postcard.

And what are the guys in the bottom center handing off from one canoe to the next?

The card is postmarked 1911.
No fancy stuff like zip codes
or full city and state names
needed then - just
Box 71, Sta F (?), Cinn O





The second one is unused, but it has an undivided back and is probably from before 1908:



I find it very interesting that this
is actually a card put out by a
railroad line to (apparently) promote
deer hunting by canoe

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Introduction

Hello Out There

This blog probably should be called "Cathy's Latest Folly", because I certainly don't have the time to do right by something like this. But I can't resist starting to play around with this technology. I have been inspired by some of the excellent local bloggers, and want to get in on the conversation.

Another thing that has gotten me started is that we have been getting ready for our first big yard sale. We are intending to substantially shrink the pile of boxes of books and postcards and jigsaw puzzles currently filling the garage. So, of course, we have been doing little else this last month except going through boxes to see what we can part with. And, also "of course" we have found so many things that we cannot part with! The postcards, in particular, have been neglected for a decade and I had forgotten how many great images there are. (And how many duplicates I had!)

So the plan here is to post a few photos or postcards every now and then and talk about why I like them (or not). It will probably be pretty low volume for a long time... but I guess that doesn't really matter!