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July 29

Come to see us soon.  Go to the station + go on a train + then come to see us.  Change trains at Boston.  We went on a picnic yesterday we played house + we had our dinner in the house.    Love + kisses to Grandma + Grandfather + Aunt Ruthie
​from Pickle Stokey
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The date of the postcard is July 29, but the only indication of the year is the incomplete postmark, where the last digit of the year has a rounded bottom.  So it must be 1923, 1925, 1926, 1928, or 1929.  I've chosen 1923, because it is clear that Kay, who was nicknamed Pickle, is dictating the message to her mother, Kathleen.  So Kay must be quite young, and in 1923 she was four years old.  1925 might be possible, but Ruth was in Gloucester, not Savannah, that summer.

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I like to imagine Kathleen and Kay talking about what to write in the postcard, and Kathleen reminding Kay, "We took the train to Boston, do you remember?  And then in Boston we changed trains to come to see Aunt Alma."

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The interesting thing about this postcard is that later in 1923 Alma sent Billy and Kay a postcard with a black and white photograph of the same view:I find it surprising that the black and white postcard was sent after the color postcard (if in fact it was; I might have gotten the year of this postcard wrong), but perhaps Alma had the postcard hanging around, and perhaps she knew that the kids liked Little Harbor - but that's speculation.  Here are the two pictures, side by side:
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