Alan Mays' photos with the keyword: Decoration Day

"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.

A Memorial Day postcard.

"When can their glory fade."

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

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