Showing posts with label postcards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label postcards. Show all posts

Monday, June 29, 2009

Mystery Monday - Unknown Violinist 1920s







Here's a little puzzle from among my Na's things.

Two postcards signed with greetings, from 1922 and 1924, presumably by the violinist shown in the photos. With them was an unidentified newspaper clipping about a performance by the famous tenor, John McCormack. This might be unrelated or, could this violinist have been one of the the musicians who played with McCormack?

The newspaper, I think, will turn out to be an Manitoba one from the 1930s as the article mentions Fred M. Gee who was well known in music in Winnipeg, but the other side has part of an article about an election in England - between Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and William Coxon which I believe was in 1931.

So far, I haven't been able to make anything out of this. Any ideas?



Sunday, May 10, 2009

A Festival of Postcards - A New Blog Carnival

Westminster Abbey and Victoria Towers, London, 8, England. Postcard, unused. No identification; real photograph, split back.


Evelyn Yvonne Theriault who writes at A Canadian Family has just announced a brand new blog carnival:

A Festival of Postcards

The theme for her first Carnival this month is - Wheels!

I'll be participating. Hope you will too.