Drowning His Sorrows

Am I a terrible person for thinking this is funny?  No publisher listed on this unused postcard.

And He Rolls In

As the caption reads, "2 A. M. And He Rolls In Quite Early."

When I was in college, I had a history professor who liked to speak of CK,  common knowledge, thinks that everyone thought of as true, but were in fact not true.  A perfect example of CK is the widely held belief that the prohibition movement began with conservative Christians who wanted to impose their own sense of morality on everyone else.  Other than the fact that prohibition had broad support, if it had any single point of origin, it was in the early women's movement for a very simple reason, women who had drunk husbands had a tendency to get beaten and killed.  Women who had sober husbands didn't. 

Anyway, I found a bit of information about T.W. Ingersoll.  Truman Ward Ingersoll (1862-1922) was an American photographer and publisher of stereo cards.  I was unable to determine if he was the only photographer or if his company had  a staff of cameramen.  He was noted for his views of Yosemite.

The Merry Widow Hat

The Merry Widow was an operetta written by Austrian composer Franz Lehar (Libretto by Victor Leon and Leo Stein) that premiered in 1905 and soon became an international sensation. It also inspired a fashion craze for large, oversize hats for women. I did a Google search for I. Grollman, the publisher of this card, and didn't find anything about Grollman, but I did find page after page of Grollman cards for sale, many of them built around the Merry Widow theme and all novelty cards.