"Busy person's correspondence card"
Dublin Core
Subject
Description
This postcard calls itself the "busy person's correspondence card," reminiscent of the field service postcards used during World War I. It never circulated (no postmark), and there is no writing on the front or the back.
Creator
Unknown
Source
Michigan, USA
Publisher
Eastern Photo Litho Company
Language
English
Identifier
Letter, Message, and Announcement Item Type Metadata
Genre
postcard
Material
paper, printing ink
Given Text
Linguistic [front]: 927 Busy person's correspondence card
Dear friend mama husband papa sweetheart wife
Do You Feel OKeh? I Am blue lucky unhappy sad lonely sunk in love starving
The Place Here Is hot cold rainy dry good for fishing wonderful tiresome
I Do Lots of working fishing dancing thinking of you making whoopee sleeping riding drinking hunting swimming reading sunning movie going nothing eating golfing
I Need you loving glasses cash kisses rest sympathy
Business Is perfect improving bad slow keeping me busy
I Wish You Would write oftener send more money come here stay at home love me write a post card wait for me send your photo
I Miss you the moonshine my honey the gang
I Will Be Seeing You
Yours forever with love
Linguistic [back]: This space for writing messages
E[]66
Made by the Eastern Photo Litho Company, Lowell, Massachusetts
Post card
Place stamp here
Dear friend mama husband papa sweetheart wife
Do You Feel OKeh? I Am blue lucky unhappy sad lonely sunk in love starving
The Place Here Is hot cold rainy dry good for fishing wonderful tiresome
I Do Lots of working fishing dancing thinking of you making whoopee sleeping riding drinking hunting swimming reading sunning movie going nothing eating golfing
I Need you loving glasses cash kisses rest sympathy
Business Is perfect improving bad slow keeping me busy
I Wish You Would write oftener send more money come here stay at home love me write a post card wait for me send your photo
I Miss you the moonshine my honey the gang
I Will Be Seeing You
Yours forever with love
Linguistic [back]: This space for writing messages
E[]66
Made by the Eastern Photo Litho Company, Lowell, Massachusetts
Post card
Place stamp here
Files
Citation
Unknown, “"Busy person's correspondence card",” Museum of Everyday Writing, accessed April 28, 2024, https://museumofeverydaywriting.omeka.net/items/show/61.