Showing posts with label MN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MN. Show all posts

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Birthday Greetings with Real Photo Inset Bricelyn Wells MN

Birthday Greetings to Miss Florence Scriver, Wells Minnesota
August 4, 1909



A third postcard about Florence, the three acquired at the same time. This postcard has some gilt Birthday Greetings, whether or not written by the sender--I don't know. This postcard is a welling wishing to Florence, who now must be home, since now going to where her mother lives Wells, Minn.

Postmark: August 5 1909 6 PM Bricelyn MN

Addressed to:
Miss Florence Scriver
Wells Minn


The Message:

Dear Flo (I can't make out the rest on this line)



I was home 4 weeks and come back Sun. We had a lot of compony yesterday from town. We got some flowers. Good by.

Rosomond.

Artwork:"Birthday Greetings" in gold-tone or gilt cursive writing by hand, inset photographs of boaters (? 2 women, 1 man ?) and geese on the lawn. Location currently undetermined.

Rick and Mary May operate the webstore Quality Music and Books.

RPPC Scenery WHO was Scheuer? by Mary Katherine May


ALONEby Scheuer

Postmark:
February 13 1909
6 PM
Bricelyn Minn

Addressed to
Mrs. W. H. Scriver

Wells, Minn.

Dear Mama:
I was going to tell you when was home but forgot it. You take enough of my money and get 50 yds of that 5-1/2 cent sheeting for home. You need it so you get it.
Florence

Often in the past when communication was limited between locations, or at best there was the telephone complete with operator and party line where anyone could listen in, the postcard was used to relay useful information...sometimes important, sometimes just general family things between brother, sister, mother, father, and other relatives.
Florence

Here is another RPPH (real picture postcard) by Scheuer, titled ALONE. Though I doubt that the cow in the water was staged, the title of the photograph gives the implication that it was.

Seen in the background are 3+ buildings laid out so that it appears to be a neighborhood rather than a farm. Since I don't have any information about Scheuer, I have no way of telling whether there is a possibility that the bridge in the background of this photo is the same bridge as the one in the previous post.

This blog post by Mary Katherine May May of Quality Music and Books.