Name/Title
Bigger-Than-Weather Boys PostcardEntry/Object ID
1998.000.009Description
The front of the postcard includes a color illustration; one figure in the front and the three at the back are not in roller skates, but the main focus of the picture is a boy and a girl on roll skates; the boy is pulling the girl along gently and seems more confident and comfortable roller skating; the girl is white with brown hair and is wearing a grey hat, a long red jacket, white gloves, white stockings, and is holding a blue bag; the boy is white with brown hair and has a hat and jacket on that are the same color, blue pants, and block stockings, and he is carrying a yellow book that is tied together with string. In the bottom corner, near the girl's feet, of the illustration is a white square with black printed text: "Dear Mate: — / What fun we do have in the rain and the sleet! We Bigger-Than-Weather Boys chase down the street, And romp all around in our patricks so free, No matter how wretched the weather may be. / Signed, "; below the white square is "Peter Newell" in black print.
Everything on the back of the postcard is in either faded black print of grey print; at the top is a description of the series that this postcard belongs to: "Adventures of the Bigger-Than-Weather Boys: Post Card No. 4 / By the famous artist and writer PETER NEWELL."; there is some damage on the postcard just below this top line; there is a line down the middle; on one side of the line is "Address" next to a postage stamp area that stages "Place Postage Here / Domestic Island Possessions Canada Mexico Panama (1c) / Foreign..2c" indicating the prices of the stamps; at the very bottom of the postcard is "WRITE FOR FREE series of these postcards: Patrick-Duluth Woolen Mill, Duluth, Minn.".Collection
PostcardAcquisition
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