Antique & Vintage Postcards

A man leans in for a kiss while his partner swoons back in a garden of white blooms — this novelty "Can You Imagine Me Doing Any Thing Like This?" card pairs a real-photo inset of an Edwardian couple with bold red-white-and-blue American flag graphics, a popular patriotic-romance formula from the early 1910s. The cheeky rhetorical question gave senders a playful, plausibly-deniable way to express affection. Postmarked from Poolesville, Maryland, the card was addressed to Miss Marguerite at "The Rideau," Ocean City, Maryland — a named cottage or boarding house, hinting at a summer holiday. The sender writes cheerily of 96-degree heat back home.