Thursday Postcard Hunt - Women Working
This month's Thursday Postcard Hunt theme is Women. This first week is Women Working.
I think this postcard from India (printed in the Netherlands) pretty much covers it, even including the Sports Girls!
These "educational charts" are to "inform, advise and instruct on how to be an ideal citizen in an ideal world."
I love RPPCs. Here are "Our Typical Launderesses" in Tuxpan, a municipality in the Mexican state of Nayarit.
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After all that work, it's time for Relaxing, next week's theme!
...women make the world go around.
ReplyDeleteWe couldn't do it alone!
DeleteThe first card is just perfect for the theme. I like the mexican card very much.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it though? :) It's one of the 5¢ random ones St. Vincent de Paul thrift store often has. They get some really strange ones. I like the Mexican one too, I like RPPC more than most others. Probably because I like vintage photos too.
DeleteIt looks like in the ideal world the same women will have 12 jobs!
ReplyDeleteOr, this is the look of the "ideal" woman in someone's ideal world.
DeleteI was going to say that first one seemed a little outdated, but then I saw physician. At least it wasn't totally "woman's work". Fascinating find.
ReplyDeleteI found it interesting there is a tailor, rather than a seamstress. Although, seamstresses are the ones to sew, not tailor. Still, in my experience the word tailor usually meant a man tailoring men's suits.
DeleteThey are very busy Indian women or as Eva pointed out woman, keeping the country functioning. I went down a rabbit hole of Indian educational charts, there are hundreds!
ReplyDeleteI never thought to do that! I just did. Did you see "An Ideal Boy - Good Habits"? He "brushes up his teeth," and "taking the lost children to the police post."
DeleteYou do find some interesting things to post, including the postcards. Very good theme.
ReplyDeleteThe theme all month is Women. Probably because it's Women's History Month. You can see the upcoming themes on the See it on a Postcard site, linked at the top.
DeleteFascinating. I wonder how old the "Typical Launderesses" post card is?
ReplyDeleteThe first one is pretty comprehensive! And more back-breaking work down at the watersedge!
ReplyDeleteI liked the Indian postcard a lot, especially as it included Physician.
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