I've slowly been sorting though a few large boxes of family keepsakes, including war militaria, old letters, and pictures. None of the boxes had been gone thru in 40-50 years or so, and had been boxed up in my grandmothers attic. Most of the stuff was from around the 1900-1920 time frame, with also some WWII era stuff. (Belonging to my grandfather.) I had hopes of finding some rare tobacco cards...but came up with nothing sports related in the card department. Just soap, coffee, and cologne cards advertising. (About 100 of them.) But, there were also about 100+ postcards, ranging in dates between 1900, all the way thru WWII. I pulled out, the only sports related postcards, as well as a newspaper clipping just to share. Any thoughts, opinions, comments are more than welcome. (As well, as overall thoughts opinions on exact time frame, or where they might be from.) Either way, I just wanted to share...
This first newspaper clipping is the only baseball related thing I found in the whole bundle. I'm not sure what its significance was, as my family was from Oklahoma. I assume the clipping is sometime between 1943 and 1949 as this was the date range of most of the post cards/letters found in the same vicinity of the clipping.....
This postcard, is from what I would guess around 1909-1912 timeframe. Football team, obviously. Other than that..no clue. Looks to be a high school, or college team???
These next few postcards are boys basketball related. I'm not sure of time frame, but there seems to be one dated 1922? These look pretty cool to me, as I have not seen older basketball post cards like these before. (But, I'm sure everyone here has.)
These listed below, are a womens basketball team. I actually believe them to be a few years older, than the boys basketball, by maybe 8-10 years? I would also love to know, what the white letters printed int he corners mean. (if anything)
