1912 -1914 - Three humorous and very well-done hand-illustrated postcards sent to a young woman by her suitor

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1914 · Florida and New York

by Addressed to Miss Mary E. Whittlesey
Florida and New York, 1914. Unbound. Very good. Three very well-done humorous hand illustrated 1-cent McKinley postcards (Scott UX24). All are addressed to "Miss Mary E. Whittlesey" of Erie, Pennsylvania from an unnamed suitor. Two were sent from Jacksonville, Florida, and one was sent from Chautauqua, New York. One is signed "Cilly Y. Artist" and another is 'signed' with a small mouse logo.

One features a colorful drawing of a banjo-playing alligator seated on a fallen tree in a southern swamp serenading Mary, "Oh, sing a song to Mary, / 'Way up in Erie Town. / Where ice, and snow and frost things / Are jest now hanging 'roun."

A second, also a colorful drawing, is titled, "The Truth About Perry." It shows Commodore Oliver Hazzard Perry writing his memoir, which begins "We have met the enemy and they are ours" while seated in a bathtub titled "The Niagara" as two uniformed sailors wait nearby.

The third, a black and white drawing is, presumably, a self-portrait, featuring Mary's unnamed beau seated at his desk having already written "17 dozen" postcards to her that evening. . (Inventory #: 010348)
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Specializing in Unique Americana, that is, we keep a selection of personal narratives such as diaries, work journals, correspondence collections, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and similar items that shed light on some aspect of North American life, culture, or society. Additionally, we always have a nice selection of philatelic material (primarily postal history) and other paper ephemera.
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