Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935)
Happy Thanksgiving!
These two cards shared today are cards but not postcards. Both are reproductions by Laughing Elephant, the small local print shop that specializes in preserving and printing vintage illustrations and cards, as both note cards and postcards.
The illustrator named on the top card is Jessie Willcox Smith. She was an American illustrator during what is called “The Golden Age of American Illustration.” Her work appeared in books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her illustrations appeared in Collier’s, Ladies’ Home Journal, Good House Keeping, Harper’s, and Scribner’s. She had a long-running Mother Goose series and covers for Good House Keeping from 1917 to 1933. She also illustrated more than 60 books including Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Illustration by S. Garre, 1905
This second card has “Painting only copyrighted S. Garre 1905” at the lower right corner. Although I could not find anything about an S. Garre illustrator in 1905, the message is certainly appropriate for today as it is Thanksgiving Day.
For additional information, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Willcox_Smith
https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/jessie-willcox-smith
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