No. 15 of 15 · Vintage Postcards
All Aboard for the Emerald Isle
Pictures by HBG
A curly-haired boy in a green coat sails a giant top hat across the waves, harp pennant flying and clay pipe in hand, on a 1911 St. Patrick's Day postcard signed HBG that reads "All Aboard for the Emerald Isle." It comes from the golden age of the postcard, when Americans mailed hundreds of millions of them a year. For someone who keeps St. Patrick's Day or loves Ireland.
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On the back
A postcard, 1911 / Signed HBG · Leubrie & Elkus, New York / Around 1905-1915 Americans mailed hundreds of millions of picture postcards a year: the golden age of the postcard. These holiday cards come from that time, kept today in the Newberry Library's Curt Teich archive.
