Vintage Postcards

I discovered this very old postcard album today.  It belonged to Madeline's mother-in-law, Mary Cullen.

It is very thick and as I opened it I realized that the pages are not holding up well.  Also, many of the postcards had fallen out and some pages held a big stack of cards like the photo above.  I briefly looked through and pulled out some to show.  There are so many postcards that I will have several postings about them.  There are many themes--patriotic, religious, holidays, scenic, and industrial. 

The timeframe for most of these is early 1900's.  Enjoy!

Since summer is about to start I'll start out with a beach scene. 

This next series is still inspiring today.  Madeline loved anything with a flag on it.

The above card was written by Mary's sister Elizabeth, telling her that a long letter was coming.

Postage for these cards was one cent.

This next series of cards was very amusing to me.  I call it "Hammock Love"!  I love how the cards tell a story.

And here is another series of similar cards.  I wasn't sure of the order for these, so I hope I got it right.  I call this "Love in the Meadow".

The last group are miscellaneous cards. 

I can't tell from the postcard what city this is, but maybe the great San Francisco fire?

Snow sounds pretty good right about now.  It's 90 outside.

Interesting picture.  Again, no info on back.  What is the significance of the "x"?

More to come . . .