Vintage Post Cards

November 14 2017

Postcards – Birthday and Humorous

John Postcards Birthday Postcards, Humorous Postcards, Leeds and Grenville County Ontario, Lyn Museum Elizabethtown, Vintage Post Cards 0

Postcards were a chance for people to send “best wishes” for special occasions to their family and friends, or just to keep in touch. The postage on these cards was cheaper than a letter and the cost of the card less than that of an actual birthday card as we know them today.

It was a way to stay in tough with friends and family and sometimes send an occasional bit of humour through the mail. These postcards give us a very accurate snapshot of the humour and attitudes of the people of that time, they give us a look into what daily life was like.

While our collection is small, we wanted to share with you what those who sent these to their family and friends back home.

We are always interested in increasing our collection so that we may share with everyone this glimpse into our past. If you have postcards there are three ways in which you could share them with us:

1) a direct donation to the museum

2) loan them to us, we will scan them and return the originals to you

3) if you have a digital image you can send it to us at our email address: LynMuseum@gmail.com

Birthday

**All good wishes for a bright and happy furure**

**A Birthday Wish – I greet you with an earnest wish; May happy days be thine, May every birthday bring you joy, So runs this wish of mine**

**Greetings- With loving Thoughts and Best Wishes on your Birthday**

**Wishing you a joyous Birthday- Like the birds song to the flower, Like the blossom to the spray, Like the sunshine to the flower, May Heaven’s smile gleam on your way**

Humorous

**Well, you have a nice old mess of it !**

**This is the year the girls propose, give me a ring instead of a rose**

**I regret that a large gathering at my rooms, quite a swell affair, prevents my accepting your kind invitation**

**“Sunshine of St. Eulalie was she called; for that was the sunshine Which, as the farmers believed, would load their orchards with apples”- Longfellow’s Evaangeline**

**When a girl puts on a man’s hat, it’s a sign she wants to kiss him.**

**I don’t mind being held by the right one**

**Am busy looking into matters here – ” Full line of peek a boo waists and open work stockings”**

**Take oh take my loving heart, And let us as a pear depart**

**Take me on trial, in Brockville , Ont.**

**I never get tired boosting for “Greenbush” It’s sure a swell place**

Said the old fat Rooster, To the little Brown Hen: “You haven’t laid an egg since the Lord knows when” Said the little Brown Hen to the old fat Rooster: “You don’t come around as often as you used ter”

November 11 2017

Postcards for Special Holidays

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While our collection is small, we wanted to share with you what those who sent these to their family and friends back home.

We are always interested in increasing our collection so that we may share with everyone this glimpse into our past. If you have postcards there are three ways in which you could share them with us:

1) a direct donation to the museum

2) loan them to us, we will scan them and return the originals to you

3) if you have a digital image you can send it to us at our email address: LynMuseum@gmail.com

Happy New Year

**A Happy New Year- To enjoy happy memories off time past- to delight in lovely visions of Future and to Live joyfully in the present.**

**May you get your full share of Good Things this festive season**

**A Happy New Year- May it be the best one yet, with many more to come**

**If next year brings all the gladness, That I hope you may receive, You will have no time for sadness, Nor remember how to grieve**

Valentines Day

**This message is for you my dear- Your looking glass will make it clear**

**True Love, Sweet Heart, To My Valentine**

**Valentine Greetings- Wont you swap your heart for mine, and be my little Valentine**

**Valentine Greetings – When Cupid plays his little tricks, And fills with love divine, I find my heart is in a fix, So be my Valentine**

**My Valentine Puzzle – My name is not Maud, Mag nor Sue., But here is just what I will do- Just guess who sent this, And I’ll give you a kiss- If one’s not sufficient- take two**

St. Patrick’s Day

**A flower of more pretentious worth, Can not be more plainly tell, The triple faith I have in thee, Thou Shamrock of the dell**

Easter

**Easter Greetings – Just an Easter greeting true, Because of my regard for you.**

**A Happy Eastertide – Like the sunshine after the rain, Easter gladness comes again, The risen Lord with your abide, And bless for you this Eastertide**

**A Joyful Easter – While the sunshine and the dew, Draw up from the earth its flowers anew, May the sun of Easter Love, Draw our hearts to Heaven above.**

**A Happy Easter – Earth awakes to the Easter music, Her Bosom with praise overflows, The Forest breaks forth into singing, For the desert has bloomed as the rose**

**Easter Joys be Thine – With all my heart, I wish for thee, A time of resurrection power, Oh, may thy life forever be, As sweet and pure as Easter flower**

**Easter Happiness – May all that is fairest and truest and best, Be given to thee of the king, May love, in its perfect completeness of rest, To thee Easter happiness bring**

**Easter Greetings- The happiest moments of my life I spend sending Easter greetings to my friends**

**Easter Blessings – God bless thee at this time of flowers, When balmy breezes move, God bless thee through life’s changing hours, With whispers of his love**

**Eastertide- The wild flowers sweetly greet you**

Thanksgiving

**I am coming for Thanksgiving, Just that alone makes life worth living**

Halloween

**The highest expectations for Halloween**

November 6 2017

Post Cards – Christmas

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Postcards were a popular way to send Christmas greetings. A chance to connect with old friends. Postcards were a very inexpensive way to send these special greetings.

By looking at the cards we can see how the various images of these holidays changed over time.

While our collection is small, we wanted to share with you what those who sent these to their family and friends back home.

If you have been to any of these places, here’s your chance to see what it used to look like.

We are always interested in increasing our collection so that we may share with everyone this glimpse into our past. If you have postcards there are three ways in which you could share them with us:

1) a direct donation to the museum

2) loan them to us, we will scan them and return the originals to you

3) if you have a digital image you can send it to us at our email address: LynMuseum@gmail.com

Christmas

**May your Christmas be Happy – Christmas Thy Royalty we own, But do not dread thee crowned,When majesty shines from thy throne, Great joy it brings around**

**May Christmas bring in goodly measure, The very things your heart would treasure**

**Christmas Tidings – All joys combine to make your Christmas a happy one**

**Greetings- With all kind thoughts and wishes for Christmas tide**

**If my sincere wish is granted Christmas will be filled with happiness for you**

**With best Wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year**

**Dec 25th – Yours and Mine at Christmas Time**

**Greetings to you on this Christmas Day**

**All that will make you happy and gay, I hope will be yours on Christmas Day**

**A Happy Christmas – As merry as the day is long. This Christmas be to you and yours**

**With the Sincerest Good Wishes for your health and happiness- Christmas Greeting**

Little Granny, three years old. With your glasses and your cap. What is that big book you hold. Resting on your aproned lap? If it is, from end to end, Full of bright things- nothing hard, It is like the wish I send, To the one who has this card!

**Christmas Cheer – Let all the world rejoice to day And happiness be yours always**

**With Best wishes for a Merry Christmas**

**A Merry Christmas – Dear happy Yuletide reigns anew, And greetings tender, warm and true, Speed forth on Memory’s wing to you, To wish you untold gladness**

**When you this card shall view, You will have cause to know, That I’d like to stand with you, Beneath the mistletoe.**

**May your house be full of song and joy this Xmas season**

November 5 2017

Post Cards – General Greeting

John Postcards General Greeting Post Cards, Lyn Museum Elizabethtown, Post Cards, Vintage Post Cards 0

While our collection is small, we wanted to share with you what those who sent these to their family and friends back home.

(If you notice the upper left hand corner on some cards is missing, as a stamp collector removed the stamp)

We are always interested in increasing our collection so that we may share with everyone this glimpse into our past. If you have postcards there are three ways in which you could share them with us:

1) a direct donation to the museum

2) loan them to us, we will scan them and return the originals to you

3) if you have a digital image you can send it to us at our email address: LynMuseum@gmail.com

**All Kind Thoughts – To wish you many happy days**

**Love like mine knows no shrinking of you I am ever thinking.**

**Miss Maude Fealy; Miss Marie Studholme; Miss Lily Hanbury and Miss Gertie Millar**

Maude Fealy (March 4, 1883 – November 9, 1971) was an American Stage and silent film actress whose career survived into the talkie era. (Wikipedia)

Caroline Maria Lupton (10 September 1872 – 10 March 1930), better known by the stage name Marie Studholme, was an English actress and singer known for her supporting and sometimes starring roles in Victorian and Edwardian musical comedy. Her attractive features made her one of the most popular postcard beauties of her day. (Wikipedia)

Lily Hanbury (1873 – 5 March 1908) was an English stage performer. Hanbury was born Lilian Florence Alcock, the daughter of Elizabeth (née Davis) and Matthew Henry Alcock.^[2] Educated in London, her début was in an 1888 revival of W.S. Gilbert’s Pygmalion and Galatea; and later she appeared on most of the leading stages of the English metropolis. Her extensive repertory included, ‘Countess Wintersen’ in The Stranger; ‘Hetty Preene’ in G.R.Sim’s Lights o’ London; and ‘Petra’ in Ibsen’s Enemy of the People. (Wikipedia)

Gertrude “Gertie” Ward, Countess of Dudley (née “Millar”) (21 February 1879 – 25 April 1952) was an English actress and singer of the early 20th century, known for her performances in Edwardian musicial comedies under her maiden name, Gertie Millar. (Wikipedia)

**Why – Why do so many folks we like dwell in a distant land, While folks we care much less about we meet on every hand.**

**Mayflowers blooming around them, Filling the air with a strange and wonderful sweetness**

**A Canadian Park Scene- The Maple Leaf for Ever**

**Harvesting a profitable crop of Onions**

Love’s Symbols- Violets, “Faithfulness” *If in your Coat this flower I see, I’ll know you’re faithful still to me.*

When the Fields are White with Daisies- “Once again the sun shines brightly and the world is white with bloom, And a girlish heart is breaking with its pain. For the news she hears next morning The the ship which sailed away, Would be anchored in harbour ne’er again” 1907

At Break of Day – *May break of day when nights dark and gloom is spent. Bring happy hours for you and sweet content.*

L’Envon – When earth’s last picture is painted, And the tubes are twisted and dried. When the oldest colors have faded, And the youngest critic has died, We shall rest and faith, we shall need in, Lie down for an aeon or two, Till the master of All Good Workmen, Shall set to work anew,

**Yah, dere iss plenty of choyful times in Lyn, undt maybe ve dont meet a policeman**

I‘ve been lonesome ever since I came to Lyn, All because you aren’t along

**I’d be completely happy in Lyn, if you were here!**

November 1 2017

Post Cards – International

John Postcards European Post Cards, Leeds and Grenville County Ontario, Lyn Museum Elizabethtown, Post Cards, Vintage Post Cards 0

Postcards were a chance for those travelling to send back home a glimpse of what they were seeing. Postcards give us a very accurate snapshot of the cities, buildings and people of that time, they give us a look into what daily life was like.

For those who stayed home, a postcard was there window to the world, treasured and saved.

While our collection is small, we wanted to share with you what those who sent these to their family and friends back home.

If you have been to any of these places, here’s your chance to see what it used to look like.

We are always interested in increasing our collection so that we may share with everyone this glimpse into our past. If you have postcards there are three ways in which you could share them with us:

1) a direct donation to the museum

2) loan them to us, we will scan them and return the originals to you

3) if you have a digital image you can send it to us at our email address: LynMuseum@gmail.com

**Souvenir of 1936- The Year of the Three Kings**

**End of a Great Career, Military Funeral of a General**

**Windsor Castle, The Grand Reception Room**

Paris- la Rue de Rivoli et le Pavillon de Marsan

**Paris – La Rue Soufflol el le Pantheon**

October 30 2017

Post Cards from Niagara Falls, Ontario

John Postcards Leeds and Grenville County Ontario, Lyn Museum Elizabethtown, Niagara Falls, Postcards of Niagara Falls, Vintage Post Cards 0

For those who stayed home, a postcard was there window to the world, treasured and saved.

While our collection is small, we wanted to share with you what those who sent these to their family and friends back home.

If you have been to any of these places, here’s your chance to see what it used to look like.

We are always interested in increasing our collection so that we may share with everyone this glimpse into our past. If you have postcards there are three ways in which you could share them with us:

1) a direct donation to the museum

2) loan them to us, we will scan them and return the originals to you

3) if you have a digital image you can send it to us at our email address: LynMuseum@gmail.com

**Rock of Ages and American Falls from below, Niagara Falls**

**General View of Niagara Falls from Canadian Side**

**Whirlpool and Aero Car, Niagara Falls**

**Niagara Falls from Great Gorge Route, Bird’s Eye View of Suspension Bridge connecting Queenston, Ontario and Lewiston, New York**

**Cave of the Winds and “Rock of Ages” Niagara Falls**

**Interior of St. Patrick’s Church, Niagara Falls, Canada**

**Cave of the Winds, American Falls, Niagara (postmarked 1919)**

**Maid of the Mist and American Falls of Niagara**

October 30 2017

Post Cards from Ontario

John Postcards Canadian Post Cards, Leeds and Grenville County Ontario, Lyn Museum Elizabethtown, Ontario Post Cards, Vintage Post Cards 1

For those who stayed home, a postcard was there window to the world, treasured and saved.

While our collection is small, we wanted to share with you what those who sent these to their family and friends back home.

If you have been to any of these places, here’s your chance to see what it used to look like.

We are always interested in increasing our collection so that we may share with everyone this glimpse into our past. If you have postcards there are three ways in which you could share them with us:

1) a direct donation to the museum

2) loan them to us, we will scan them and return the originals to you

3) if you have a digital image you can send it to us at our email address: LynMuseum@gmail.com

**Montreal Road, Cummings Bridge (Ottawa) Ont.**

**King Street (East) looking West, showing Sir John Macdonald statue, Hamilton, Ont.**

**Regatta Day, Stony Lake, Kawartha Lakes, Ont.**

**Municipal Buildings, Cobourg, Canada**

**Queens Square showing Knox Church and Opera House, Galt, Ont., Canada**

**Birds Eye View of Merrickville, Ont., Golf Links in back ground.**

**St. Lawrence Street, Merrickville, Ont.**

**Parliament Buildings from Nepean Point, Ottawa**

**Entrance to House of Parliament, Ottawa**

**Jarvis Street Baptist Church, Toronto, Canada**

**Osgoode Hall (Law Courts), Toronto, Canada**

**On the Terrace showing Manufactures’ and Women’s Building, Toronto Exhibition, Canada**

**Bridge, at Little River, Gore Street, Perth, Ont.**

**Water Scene near the Island, Toronto**

**Poonahmalee Cut above Smiths Falls, Ont.**

**Post Office & Parliament Blds., Ottawa**

**Queens Park, Toronto, Ontario – 1908**

October 30 2017

Postcards from Canada

John Postcards Belleville Ontario, Canadian Post Cards, Leeds and Grenville County Ontario, Lyn Museum Elizabethtown, Post Cards, Vintage Post Cards 2

For those who stayed home, a postcard was there window to the world, treasured and saved.

While our collection is small, we wanted to share with you what those who sent these to their family and friends back home.

If you have been to any of these places, here’s your chance to see what it used to look like.

We are always interested in increasing our collection so that we may share with everyone this glimpse into our past. If you have postcards there are three ways in which you could share them with us:

1) a direct donation to the museum

2) loan them to us, we will scan them and return the originals to you

3) if you have a digital image you can send it to us at our email address: LynMuseum@gmail.com

(You may notice that some of the upper left corner is missing on some post cards, this is where the stamp was and someone wanted it for their collection)

**Main Street, Moose Jaw, (Saskatchewan)**

**Portage la Prairie, Man. Birds Eye View**

**Mount Royal Ave, East, Montreal, Canada**

**Montreal in the forest lands on Mount Royal**

**The Basilica and City Hall Square, Quebec**

**Corner Granville and Hastings Streets, Vancouver, B.C.**

**Dominion Trust Building, Vancouver, B.C.**

**Waterfront and Shipping Vancouver, B.C. (postmarked 1906)**

**Overlooking Capilano Canyon, Vancouver, B.C.**

**Life in the Canadian West “Roping the Steer”**

**Life in the Canadian West: “The Cowboy Race”**

**The Great Divide, Stephen, Canadian Rockies**

**The Home of D.E.Black & Co., Limited, Calgary, Alta.**

**Central School, Calgary, Alta., Canada**

**G.T.P. Freight Yards, Prince George, B.C.**

**Spy Hill Dairy & Stock Farm- Calgary Central Creamery**

**Down Bow River showing Mount Rundle, Banff, Canadian Rockies**

**Takakkaw Falls, (1200 feet high), Yoho Valley, Canadian Rockies**

**City Hall and Jacques Cartier Square, Montreal**

**Cabot Tower, Signal Hull, St.Johns, Newfoundland – 1957**

**Teachers’ College, Fredericton, New Brunswick- 1956**

**Canadian National Railways Depot, Winnipeg, Manitoba- 1942**

**Mount Baker from Shoal Bay, Victoria, BC**

Belleville, Ontario

These postcards were part of a souvenir booklet and found inside of an old book. Unfortunately they were not well preserved, but give us a glimpse in Belleville in the early 1900’s