Happy Birthday Postcards!

A batch of early twentieth century birthday postcards, for my sister's 23rd birthday!

New York Public Library

Postmarked 1910. Source

New York Public Library

"Congratulations on your birthday" just isn't something we say anymore... Unwritten. Source

New York Public Library

Postmarked 1907. Source

Birthdays by Postcard

Since we don't have a holiday for a while, let's dip into the New York Public Library holiday postcard collection with something for all seasons!

Also--this is a two-month overdue birthday post for my sister. Happy birthday!

Many of these are unwritten, or the message on the back is just another "happy birthday" or "many returns", which I haven't reproduced. If you follow the link to the NYPL site you can look at all the backs, too.

From the 1900s-1910s, with one exception. 

New York Public Library

Just signed "From Mother." Source

New York Public Library

Postmarked 1908. Source

New York Public Library

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Happy Birthday!

The annual post to say happy birthday to my sister!

Happy birthday, Maddie! :)

A girl's 9th birthday party, Sydney, Australia, 1930s. Source

A children's birthday party in the 1930s, Sydney, Australia. Source

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An office birthday party, 1951. Source

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An 1889 birthday party, Brooklyn, New York. Source

The 75th birthday party of one Anna Archer, Denmark, undated. Source

A 1930s birthday party in Sydney. Source

A birthday party in Bergen, Norway, 1903. Source

Kids in costume for the 70th birthday of  Hermann Marcus, US, 1920. Source

A kid's birthday party in Virginia, 1953. Source

A birthday cake so big it needs four horses to pull it. That, or a float in a parade, Lethbridge, Alberta, 1956. Source

Tennessee Williams with a twentieth birthday cake-- for his play The Glass Menagerie, haha. 1965. Source

Samuel Rayburn blows out his birthday candles, Washington DC, 1949. Source

A little boy blows out his candles, surronded by friends-- fellow evacuees from London and Belgium, 1943. Source

Musician Harry James and his wife Betty Grable celebrate the first birthday of their daughter, California, 1945 [rotated and cropped from the original]. Source

Birthday party for actress Maree Austin, Melbourne, 1951. Source

A little girl and her birthday cake, Chicago, 1961. Source

Happy Birthday

Let's have a cheery post, shall we? Yesterday was my sister's birthday, so today's post is a belated birthday celebration. Wonderful photographs of birthday parties-- again from Australia, actually! Australian photograph archivers like the same things as me, I suppose. 

A posh birthday part in the 1930s. I love the giggling girl just above the cake! Source

The 21st birthday of actor Sabu Dastagir [The Thief of Baghdad (1940) and Jungle Book (1942)] in 1945. Source

Children's birthday party in the 1930s. Aww. Source

1920s birthday party. Source

Once more, Happy Birthday to Maddie Krentz!