Thursday, February 21, 2008

More pretties from the past

I've been scanning the post cards that were given to my father when he was growing up, all of them before 1924, I believe. In the collection are cards for most any occasion. None of them have been mailed, but most had a note on the back and were signed by the giver. I guess people just handed out the cards the way kids do Valentines today.





I'll bet World War I was going on when this Thanksgiving card was printed.


Now here are some handkerchiefs whose age I'm sure of, because they were mine as a child. Most, if not all, were given to me when I was in the hospital for a week when I was seven years old, in 1951. The doctors never did figure out what was wrong with me, but my mysterious ailment disappeared on its own. My fever finally ebbed and I stopped vomiting, so they unhooked the intravenous needles from my arm, started feeding me gradually, and sent me home.

5 comments:

  1. Nice old post cards and hankies. They don't make them like that any more.

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  2. Anonymous1:23 PM

    Hi Donna...just discovered your blog. I love looking through your moms stuff with you. Kinda like going through Grandma's attic. I'm posting a wee post about your site. Hope that's okay. Don't expect a lot of traffic as my readership is about 12.
    But wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed rifling through your posts!

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  3. Love the hankies
    The post cards look like the ones my dad got when he was overseas
    during WW2

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  4. MM said exactly what I was thinking, they do not make them like that anymore.

    The bluebirds birthday is a favorite of mine!

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  5. Love cool old stuff like that. I always want to try to come up with a project to create using vintage cards or old lace pillowcases...but I am not very good at projects so it is better left alone.

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