• Collecting

    Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska

    E.C. Patton album, cards 12-14 The three cards for today fall distinctly on Patton’s collecting side. Not a word anywhere suggesting potential purchases. Indeed they may well have been part of his network of post card correspondents. I’m trying not to prejudge how Patton assembled his collection, but these vary from some of the previous in ways that match with other exchanged post cards I’ve seen. First up, a card from Monterrey, Mexico. The front contains all there is of the message. This card basically only carries identification of the sender–Jose’ M. Guerra Cisneros–and the day they sent it. The reverse has the stamped name and address of the sender.…

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