wonder, she wrote

wonderful cards & notes & letters header image by Susan Wise

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Did you mail those letters I gave you yesterday?

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I must admit that “shit-ass” is not a word I ever thought I’d see in a 19th century letter… but here we are.

“This is kind of a shit-ass of a letter, but I just wanted to let you know I was alive.”

- Gilbert Patterson to Jack, June 16, 1896.

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Letter from cartoonist Alfred Joseph Frueh to his wife Giuliette Fanciulli, sent on Jan. 10th, 1913. The letter opens up to form a model of a gallery hung with paintings. Frueh made this model to inform his wife about the details of a specific art gallery before her visit.

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Fine writing instruments, office supplies and art products imported from Japan and Europe.

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Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

I’m WILD About You, Valentine Vintage Valentine Card

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Rainy Days

We’ve been trying to stay dry here in Milwaukee these last few days. But it hasn’t dampened our spirit. Like these robust gentlemen, we find comfort in good company while we wait out these end-of-the-summer storms. It may help to have a humongous umbrella and the “Champagne of Beer” at hand too.

From the Greetings from Milwaukee digital collection part of the Thomas and Jean Ross Bliffert Postcard Collection (UWM Manuscript Collection 171, box 6, binder 11)

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