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Postcard 1908 Comic Drunk Wheelbarrow "Yes I Got Home All Right" Raymondville NY
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Pre-linen · 1908

Postcard 1908 Comic Drunk Wheelbarrow "Yes I Got Home All Right" Raymondville NY

Raymondville, New York, USA1908Pre-linenGood

With a knowing wink to Edwardian-era drinking humor, this early divided-back comic card depicts a ruddy-faced, top-hatted gentleman being triumphantly — if unsteadily — wheeled home in a wooden barrow by a dutiful companion, the caption reading "Yes, I got home all right, all right," a punchline that needed no further explanation in 1908. Mailed from Raymondville, New York in December 1908 to Edna in Popes Mills, NY, the brief message wishes her "a very Happy New Year and many more — how are you all," signed from the whole family. The warm sepia and red illustration style is characteristic of the golden age of American comic postcards, when humor cards dominated the market and printing houses churned out thousands of variations on the tipsy-gentleman theme. A 1-cent Ben Franklin stamp (Scott #300 era) franks the card.

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