A selection of paper-moon real photo postcards from the collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus. All date from the second decade of the 20th Century.
A mother and her daughters sit happily on a plain, but elegant, sliver of moon.Beverly writes, “I like the smile and relaxed air of this young man who holds the nose of the man in the moon. I wonder why the paint on the nose of the man in the moon is not worn off, since so many of my cards show the sitter holding the nose.”A delightfully saucy real photo postcard by the Electric Post Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas.A flirty moon tries to chat up a pretty gal.A fashionable young lady poses on a friendly moon surrounded by stars and a sky-skimming biplane.
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All of Jack and Beverly’s paper moon images can be seen here.
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