Thursday Postcard Hunt - Christmas

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🎄 MERRY CHRISTMAS! 🎄

Fittingly, the theme for this week's Thursday Postcard Hunt is Christmas!  

1911

c.1930s - 1940s when bright colors, "Golly," and humorous winks at "curses" would have been popular. 


c.1905

c.1910 - 1915

1911

This one is interesting due to its cancellation advertising the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.


One of my favorite postcards of all of my postcards!  

c.1908 - 1910 printed in Germany

A traditional nativty combined with figures from European folk customs. There's a hunter in his traditional dress with his German dachshund and several dead animals. A boy has brought a live animal of some sort in a cage.  Then, a mother with three children are wearing 1880s - early 1900s clothing, and have brought a tree for Jesus' first Christmas.   It may be Joseph hiding in the shadows, or a shepherd.   It just all makes such a strange nativity!  


Hope you have a very Merry Christmas, or lovely Thursday if you don't celebrate it.
Next week starts a new theme in the new month of the new year.  
Light. First off will be Sunshine. 


Comments

  1. Mail AdventuresDecember 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM

    So nice to see these different styles. Your postcards are always interesting!

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  2. marinaDecember 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM

    The second card is a hoot! And I like its style. And the postcard with the little girl on the phone is so cute!

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  3. Liz A.December 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM

    Those are such interesting postcards. It's funny how things have changed and how things have not in the century since those were made. Merry Christmas.

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  4. FinnBadgerDecember 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM

    There's are pretty amazing. Merry Christmas!

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  5. TomDecember 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM

    ...Lisa, I hope that you are having a very Merry Christmas.

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  6. JoyDecember 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM

    I like the remembrance card with (possibly) the lock keepers cottage. The last card adds to the weird and wonderful world of old postcards.

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  7. violet sDecember 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM

    I do find the messages of Christmas cheer, etc. so charming.

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