Christmas 2012

Friends kindly sent postcards inside their holiday greeting cards!

Eileen sends a vintage card of a Jicarilla Apache man known as James A. Garfield, printed by Detroit Photographic Co in 1899 and mailed to London in 1903. Garfield, also known as Velarde, lived as a farmer/rancher on the Jicarilla Reservation in New Mexico. A color tinted version of the Edward S. Curtis is a well known inmage. He wears a Presidential peace medal and an otter fur bandolier.

Laura (Stamp Raider) also sent two wonderful vintage cards!

This encampment at Lake of the Woods, Ontario Canada includes traditional bark covered wickiups, canvas tipis and a canvas wall tent. The card was printed in England but mailed from Canada to Belgium in 1920.

Carved wooden poles placed in Thunderbird Park, Victoria BC, Canada. This park began in 1940 when a vacant lot in Victoria was used by the provincial museum to display poles; in the 1960s they were moved indoors and restored. Visitors enjoyed seeing the work and so new poles were also carved in the shop. For more information read Looking at Totem Poles by Hilary Stewart (1993).