See It On A Postcard's Thursday Postcard Hunt is in search of hats..
"When the Heart is young" |
A breezy day on the beach and one person is making sure that her hat will not blow off. She should have used hat pins. I have one of my grandmother's long hat pins and it looks as though it could also double as a lethal weapon. The postcard was sent from the seaside resort of Blackpool in August 1909 from Amy to her friend Miss A Bodkin and tells her that they were enjoying themselves immensely as is this happy crowd.
"He doesn't see me yet" |
I was sent a set of these cards published by Atkinson Bros in Toronto featuring a lot of hats and poses mainly worn by this young women playing peek-a-boo.
PHQ 2011: Centenary of the First UK Aerial Post "Gustav Hamel receives first mailbag" |
Of course I have to feature a postman's hat and there would be postcards in his bag for this test flight from Hendon Airfield to Windsor carried commemorative cards and envelopes.
4 comments:
Great collection! the cards are awesome!
Those are amazing cards! A few of those ladies are quite daring showing so much leg!
Postmen with postcards! Clever!
Ah, the days when no one did any 'duckface' for their photos!
It was difficult to be a woman in the hats era!
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