Name/Title
"Nobody ever asks to skate with me" PostcardEntry/Object ID
1998.000.018Description
Front of the postcard is a color illustration; background is blue splotches; yellow rectangle at the bottom of the front with "Witt"(?) (artist's signature) in a corner of the rectangle; three figures, all with pale skin, are in the illustration; the brown-haired girl in the front is glancing over at the couple roller skating together and she is wearing a red bow, a blue dress, red socks, and roller skates; the couple both have blonde hair with the girl wearing a blue bow, a red dress with yellow dots, blue socks, and roller skates with the boy wearing a purple outfit with blue and white stripped socks as well as roller skates. In large black print is "Nobody ever asks to skate with me". Both the front and the back have stains.
On the back of the postcard is a basic structure with "Post Card" at the top and two sections labelled "This side for Correspondence" and "This side for Address" respectively, all in green print; the line underneath "Post Card' is fancy and has flower designs; the postage stamp area has this text in it: "Place Postage Stamp Here / Domestic One Cent / Foreign Two Cents" with "Printed in the U.S.A." printed vertically next to it, all in green print. Black stamp with information about when and where the postcard was sent: "[city is too faded to see] Apr 26 / 6 AM / 1918 / PA.". The recipient of this postcard is written, in black ink, in the "Address" section: "Miss Josephine Kingsbery / Shichshirmy(?) Lay(?) Co. / R. F. D. 4.". There is also a handwritten note in black ink in the "Correspondence" section: "April 24 1918 / Dear friend as I thought I would write you a few things to let you no I remember(?) you. Do not take this picture so [can't make out the next word]. As I had no other one. Will write more next time answer soon. Will be over that way soon. H. Hess.".Collection
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