Gibson Girl-ish caricature captured for use as a postcard, ca. 1910. As we've seen in previous posts, pennants on postcards were popular adornments with communities' names inscribed within. Please see: http://menashabook.blogspot.com/2013/06/felt-pennant.html. This one happens to combine several tropes of the time- the pennant along with the ingénue, atop a rendering of what is assumed to be her local institution of higher learning.
Look at the beautiful handwriting! Especially in the address. Shows what a fountain pen could do when people took the time to communicate even in a simple post card. No TWITwhits. No LOL or OMG! In many schools they don't even teach cursive handwriting anymore. The real tragedy is that future generations will be unable to even read much of what was written in the past.
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Great comments! This is such an outstanding blog and full of useful information it should have links from the Menasha Historical Society and the Neenah - Menasha Chamber of Commerce.
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