While rummaging through some boxes that had come from my mom's house, I turned up a 4 inch tall stack of old post cards that had been carefully saved, and kept in a cedar chest that my great-great-grandmother once owned.  I figured all of the postcards had been sent to her and my great-great-grandfather, but it turned out there were some addressed to people I've never heard of, so I'm not really sure how they all came to be together in that chest.  Many of them had no message at all, just the picture on one side, the addressee and postage on the other.  Some of them were boring, some were really strange, some were creepy, and some were downright offensive.  I always thought of the turn-of-the-century as a grander time, when people were more polite and even the simplest of greetings had an air of class about them, so I was a bit surprised to disover how ugly, bawdy and tacky so many of them were.   

My g-g-grandfather had been Mayor of South Bend, Indiana at one point, so there were plenty of glad tidings from people who seemed to ooze class and refinement, as well as inoffensive cards from people who I presume just went with whatever was popular at the time.  For instance, this is one of 4 different post cards sent from 4 different people that depicted dogs looking at a chick:



Nothing says Easter like a pit bull standing over a defenseless baby bird.

This one I rather liked because the message still stands just as true today as it was in 1904:




I absolutely love this one, especially because the woman glued a picture of herself to the front in an effort to, I suppose, show how much she looks like the woman in the cartoon.  I would love to know what sort of glue she used, because 100 years later, it's still holding fast.  I guess in 1905 "sexual harrassment" wasn't quite the hot button issue that it is today:



Her written message says, "Such funny things office guys will do ---ooo---", so maybe that's from a song?  
Times sure have changed, because if Boss 1 or Boss 2 ever came at me like they were going pull a move like that, I would take off my shoe and beat them about the head and neck with it.