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Posted: 07 Jul 2014

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Keep This to Look at When I Am Dead and Gone

Keep This to Look at When I Am Dead and Gone
A proud of their blooming plant photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

In 1910, sixty-year-old Sarah Hetyke posed for this photo next to the blooming mock orange tree in her yard and then wrote a poignant message to her three-year-old nephew on the back of it (see below).

Handwritten on the back of this real photo postcard:

Lewis Stifler

Aug. 9, 1910

Dear Lewis,

I am 60 and you are 3. You keep this to look at when I am dead and gone, and remember me. And I hope you will grow up to be a good and useful man.

Lovingly,

Your Aunt Sarah Hetyke

Taken in the yard beside the mock orange tree when [it was] in full bloom.

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 Deborah Lundbech
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Amazing, Alan. Really fantastic find.
I find it so interesting that she wrote that note to her nephew! I hope he had it for many years, and looked at it often.
And I do hope he grew up to be a "good and useful man".
10 years ago. Edited 10 years ago.

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