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Posted: 09 Feb 2017

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Come On, Tige!

Come On, Tige!
Postmarked Boston, Mass., Sept. 12, 1911, on the back and addressed to Miss Edith Bates, 27 Bradbury St., Allston, Mass., with a handwritten message: "Are [Our] Little Dear!"

A curious postcard featuring an oversized dog. The name Tige may relate to the dog in cartoonist Richard F. Outcault's popular Buster Brown comic strip, which first appeared in 1902.

For examples of Outcault's drawings of Tige, see Buster Brown and His Dog Tige and Buster Brown Joker (below).

Buster Brown and His Dog Tige Buster Brown Joker

Deborah Lundbech, Smiley Derleth, arts enthusiast have particularly liked this photo

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 arts enthusiast
arts enthusiast
Love!!!!!! Hands down the best exaggeration postcard I've ever seen.
7 years ago.
 Smiley Derleth
Smiley Derleth club
Very, very fun.
7 years ago.

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