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Postcard 1907 Comic "I Am One of the Push" Street Vendor Cart Maine Used
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Pre-linen · 1907

Postcard 1907 Comic "I Am One of the Push" Street Vendor Cart Maine Used

Maine, USA1907Pre-linenFair-Good

With a wild grin and brightly colored striped trousers, a bearded street vendor throws his whole body into pushing an overloaded produce cart past onlookers on a gaslit sidewalk — corn at 1¢, peaches three for 10¢, apples two for 3¢ — in this breezy 1907 comic card captioned "I am one of the 'Push.'" The phrase was early-20th-century American slang for someone who hustles in a crowd or gang of street traders, and the caricature leans into the era's urban immigrant street life imagery with cheerful exaggeration. Mailed from Maine in July 1907 to Raymond in Temple, Maine (RFD rural route), the card carries a 1-cent Ben Franklin stamp with a strong machine cancel. The R.F.D. designation — Rural Free Delivery — and the Maine postmark root this piece firmly in the agricultural hinterland even as its subject celebrates big-city street commerce. A charming artifact of Edwardian-era American humor.

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