[Jolly Amaranto]

I have my grandmothers collection of old post cards from about 1900 to 1916. Most were those she had received but many were ones she wrote to others. She and her friends and sisters used them kind of like kids use text messaging and tweets these days. In rural Wisconsin in that day, it usually took only a day for them to be delivered. When Gram was in high school she lived with a family in town, working as a domestic to get room and board. Her sister would write her from the farm with a list of things to buy for her before she came home on the weekend. She and her friends would plan their weekend social calendar and trade all the gossip. The photos on the postcards could be anything and from anywhere. I know she never traveled to Asia, Africa or Europe but somehow she and her friends obtained postcards from all over to use for their communiques.