Nofukuji_Buddha_Scan_reverse_005
Postcard postmarked Kobe likely May 6, 1911. The penciled "1911?" was probably added by a collector or dealer.
The message: "How would you like this for a doll? It would make quite a big doll, wouldn't it? Hope you are well."
Big thanks to Bill Smith who found that the U.S. Bureau of the Census and Ancestry.com show that the card recipient, Isabel Tree, was born in 1900. The sender's references to dolls makes a lot more sense if you know that she was about eleven years old when she received the postcard.
Research on peterromaskiewicz.com shows that the header on this postcard was a design used by Ueda Photographic Prints Corporation.
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For a view of the front side, go back to the previous image or click the scan in the first comment, below.
Nofukuji_Buddha_Scan_reverse_005
Postcard postmarked Kobe likely May 6, 1911. The penciled "1911?" was probably added by a collector or dealer.
The message: "How would you like this for a doll? It would make quite a big doll, wouldn't it? Hope you are well."
Big thanks to Bill Smith who found that the U.S. Bureau of the Census and Ancestry.com show that the card recipient, Isabel Tree, was born in 1900. The sender's references to dolls makes a lot more sense if you know that she was about eleven years old when she received the postcard.
Research on peterromaskiewicz.com shows that the header on this postcard was a design used by Ueda Photographic Prints Corporation.
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For a view of the front side, go back to the previous image or click the scan in the first comment, below.