Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Cherub with Phone
Since when do cherubs talk on the phone anyway? Well, at least it's not a cell phone.
It must be hard to type on a textured card like this, but it didn't stop Anna Calway, who was writing to her friend Nancy Davis in Merrifield, New York. Only at the end did she add a couple of handwritten words, including: "Don't mind how this is written" on the side.
What a great postcard, and a bizarre mix of typing and writing.
ReplyDeleteI think I like the quite irregular
ReplyDeletetyping best of all ! It looks as if
she had quite a time keeping it in
the roller ... .
jjj
Almost looks like mimeograph fluid . . . and, remember, jjj, the roller was called a paper bail:D- Never could understand that piece of nomenclature. Jack/Y-town
ReplyDeleteI noticed the phone on the front is "wireless". I guess those cherubs were onto something a long time ago. I'm speechless about the typing on the back. Do you realize how bad a person hated to write or either hated their handwriting to have to put up with that loose typewriter!
ReplyDeleteToo cute! I am surprised to see that people typed PCs - I've seen a few, but you are right, it seems it would be hard, not to mention damage the card!
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed that someone was typing informal correspondence in 1913 (or is it 1917?). What a surprise. The writing tips down at the bottom not because the bail was loose but because it was the end of the card. Anna had to push the top of the card down to keep it in place to type. No doubt that last line was typed one-handed. That chatty little cherub is adorable.
ReplyDeleteGood detective work Nancy, no one under 25 would have figured that out...
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