These 3 came from The Garden State Postcard Club show last weekend.
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Convincing.
Just jesting?
Boy toddlers in dresses were common.
But this seaside suit for an older boy(?) is unusual.
Vintage postcards and 19th century advertising trade cards from the collection of Marilyn Stern, including brief essays. Topics include African Americans in trade cards, gender fluidity, Mexico, real photo postcards, cyanotypes, superlatives, post-card collecting, and Molly Bloom (book project).
Trade cards were widely distributed advertising from the late 1870s to about 1900. This collection features African Americans, and some non...