Here are more than a dozen colorfully-illustrated postcards published in honor of Memorial Day — known originally as Decoration Day. These antique cards are all from the early 1900s, and several feature the work of popular artist Ellen Clapsaddle.
Vintage Memorial Day postcard
Vintage Memorial Day souvenir postcard
Memorial Day postcard (1912)
Antique Decoration Day postcard (1908)
Antique Memorial Day postcard – Child with flags
Civil War remembrance – Memorial Day postcard
Memorial Day – George Washington’s tomb vintage postcard
Love, trust & peace
“May thy sweet blossom never cease to bloom in love and trust and peace.”
Garlands for the fallen
“Strew the fair garlands where slumber the dead.”
Never forgotten
“Nor shall their story be forgot”
Remember your friends
We’ve read about the heroes from old Greece and Rome, but the one we’d like to hear from is the one from home.
No stain
“Wherever it floats, on land or sea, no stain its honor mars.”
Freedom smiles
“Freedom smiles, her fate secure, beneath its steadfast stars.”
