Memorial Day

For another postcard with the same ears-of-corn border, see Greetings from the Grange Encampment and Fair, Centre Hall, Pennsylvania .

"When can their glory fade."

A Memorial Day postcard.

"Design copyright 1908, by M. W. Taggart." Postmarked May 27, 1912.

"Decoration Day. Story of the Flag. C. Bunnell." This 1908 postcard for Decoration Day (now called Memorial Day , of course) is unusual for its humorous take on the holiday. The illustration of a couple kissing behind a flag is quite a contrast to the depictions of monuments, gravesites, and soldiers that typically appeared on Memorial Day postcards in the early twentieth century.