Thursday, December 20, 2012

Object of the Day, Caption Contest: A Snow Scene




I couldn’t even begin to guess how many hundreds of thousands of trade cards were printed in the late Nineteenth Century. As you know, some were commissioned specifically for a business while others were meant to be purchased by a business owner who would stamp or overprint them with their own information. These stock cards offered a variety of visuals, many corresponding with a specific season.

Here’s one such trade card. Obviously meant to be distributed in winter, the chromolithograph hints at a Christmas theme, but it was never printed or stamped with any business’ information. Still, someone handed it over to someone else for some reason, and thus, it’s a handsome survivor of its kind. 

So…since we have no clue who used this card and for what reason, let’s have a caption contest. Who are those three stubby little people trudging through the snow? Where are they going? What are they carrying? The snow is fresh.  After all, some of the trees are still green.  Why did the snow only cover part of the landscape?  Is it really snow?  Is it potato flakes?  

Go on, put your warped little minds to work. Answers in the comments section, please.    


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

12 comments:

Carolyn said...

The last three of the original ten dwarves had a bone to pick with Snow White.

Joseph Crisalli said...

Their association with Bo Peep would soon begin.

Matt said...

"I'm tellin' you. Trick or Treat doesn't work in December."

Joseph Crisalli said...

Not usually.

Gene said...

When her brothers decided they would take her door to door until someone would marry her, Carol had no idea she was starting a new holiday trend.

Joseph Crisalli said...

Ha!

Dashwood said...

Grandpa leaned back in his chair and said, "I remember it was in 1878 when the cotton grew so high we couldn't pick it fast enough. The pods busted wide open one November mornin' and blew all over the town. Covered the dance hall, it did. We kids got sent home from school with our little coats on and had a hard time seeing. Didn't find my cousin Elmo for three days. Skinny kid. Looked like a Q Tip when we pulled him out of a drift."

Grandpa, by the way, is NUTS!

Joseph Crisalli said...

We would wear onions on our belts, as was the style of the time.

April said...

"I think they already know about the explosion at the soap factory, Donna."

Joseph Crisalli said...

They knew. And, they were in a lather.

Darcy said...

The Char Woman, the Laundress, and the Undertaker thought it might be nice to stop at Bo Peep's Tea Room before they went to old Joe"s to sell the goods they took from Scrooge 's house.
They were never seen or heard from again .

Joseph Crisalli said...

Talk about "Reprehensible."