MOURNING VISITING CARDS
Often when researching, I am taken completely by surprise when a simple "nothing extraordinary" photograph or piece of ephemera, turns out to be anything but simple. When research starts it often takes on a life of its own and literally explodes.
So it was with a group of visiting cards I purchased. The group was of fifty plain, name only, no decoration, visiting cards, early 1900s. I purchased them because the lot description said there were two cards with black borders. I hoped these were mourning cards, but the seller didn't know and was just getting rid of some paper ephemera he had purchased at an estate sale. I purchased them, hoping they'd be what I was looking for.
The History Hare takes a look at Mourning Visiting Cards
You'll find the rest of this article in
the Graveyard Rabbit Online Journal.
You'll find the rest of this article in
the Graveyard Rabbit Online Journal.
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