Who Were They?

Lost and forgotten photos from the past

While this photograph doesn’t show any signs of Christmas or other winter holidays, it is good enough to have been featured on a Christmas card. There is a girl, a boy, and a dog, all in front of a nice roaring fire. I am taking a guess at the names. One is Verne, clearly, but …

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Here’s Ozzy, Harriet, Wally, and….nope, not *those* Nelsons, sorry! A winter scene replete with Santa Claus greets us along side a happy family looking off toward Santa to check up on what he is doing. The children look like a boy and a girl to me. I love love love Mr Nelson’s funky tie!

This happy family posed in front of a tree for their Christmas picture. The parents and three small children look happy in the sunshine. One of the parents was a smart alec and signed their card “Guess who :-)”  Well, we shall remain guessing after all these years!

  For as long as there have been Christmas cards, people have been sending them late, haha. Here’s a nice card showing stair step kids in coordinating pajamas. It appears that Mrs Smith intended to mail these before the Christmas rush but missed the opportunity due to late delivery, and just wrote over the Christmas …

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  This is a postcard greeting with lovely embossing and gold, red and green coloring. The card was part of the Rudd collection and there were several others similar to this but for other holidays, such as Easter, thinking of you, best wishes, etc. I imagine the postcard greeting was an economical way to send …

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