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Just started digging in the box of loose photos when I found this old postcard.  Believe it or not, it's part of the longest-running collection on The New Found Photography.  The very first image dates back to 2013.  This will be number 41 in the series.  There are also some images that are based on drawings rather than photographs and are posted on my Fair Use blog.  They're all under Flirtation in labels at the bottom of the post.  The person who sold these postcards to me called them his flirtation collection.  At first, I thought it was just a name he used to help in selling, but there was an episode of The Murdoch Mysteries that was built around flirtation cards, given out as a means to attract the opposite sex, so it looks like flirtation cards were a real thing, if not one hell of a coincidence.  

So, written on the back, "Dear Sister, how are you all and all the friends.  I am here in dreary land and have got a terrible cold write soon Love you all sister Brie.  38 Ervin St."  I've noticed that friends is a word that's often used in these cards, so I've always thought that there were a lot of Quakers sending the cards in this collection.  The card was mailed to "Mrs Arthur G. Brown, 547 West 164 St., New York City."  The postmark, "NORWALK CONN, SEP 21, 5-PM 1908." 

Obviously, click on Flirtation in labels to bring up the other cards in this collection. 

Bertha Bradish at the Piano

Well, I thought I might be able to find out something about Bertha Bradish, and about all I could find was that there was a Bertha Bradish who was a resident of Huron, Ohio recorded in the 1900 census.  The Norwalk, Ohio exposition (?) and piano contest is a mere 11 miles from Huron, so I'm going out on a limb and saying that the Bertha from Huron, who played in the piano contest are one in the same.  Too, Norwalk is the county seat of Huron County, so yet another link.  This postcard was mailed.  It has an undivided back from the era when people weren't supposed to write messages on the back.  It was mailed to "Jno. Bellamy, Norwalk, O"  It has both a postmark for where it was mailed from and where it was sent.  ""WAKEMAN, OHIO JAN 7, 10-AM"  The other postmark, "NORWALK, OHIO JAN 7, 5-PM  1907"  Wakeman is also in Huron County.  Any guesses on what the full name for Jno. is?