I probably shouldn't have posted this without making a comment regarding the caricatures. I definitely agree with the anonymous commenter that several of the caricatures would be inappropriate on a card today.
However, this blog's focus is on genealogy and history. This card was in my grandmother's collection. It is representative of the times in which it was sent.
Transylvania, Holland, Alsace, Poland, England, Germany, Lithuania and Texas all contain soil upon which ancestors dwelt; Farmers, beekeepers, shepherds, tailors, blacksmiths, salesmen, clergy, judges, and doctors.
As I research ancestral lines I discover some ancestors celebrated Hanuka, others Christmas, and still others the Green Corn Ceremony; Jewish, Methodist Episcopalian, Puritan, Christian Scientist, Mennonite, Choctaw, and Cherokee.
I shall never find the records for my distant ancestors who either came to this continent by crossing the Land Bridge, or originally emerged from the Nanih Waiya in Mississippi.
I delve through obituaries, microfilm depositories, internet databases; I interview relatives, and rummage through attics.
What I find doesn't alter who I am; It illuminates the divergent, yet still intersecting paths of my ancestors.
5 comments:
Quite a bit different from characters in cards today.
That is a great card!
Very nice and original card, well though out
Sorry I'm commenting late but this is a great Wordless Wednesday!
I probably shouldn't have posted this without making a comment regarding the caricatures. I definitely agree with the anonymous commenter that several of the caricatures would be inappropriate on a card today.
However, this blog's focus is on genealogy and history. This card was in my grandmother's collection. It is representative of the times in which it was sent.
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