World's Biggest Show, Wonderful Hand-drawn 1908 Postcard carving of woman with terrific backs featuring a

with terrific backs featuring a young Hawaiian woman with cards spread out in front of her and a lei around her neck

I have a hard time resisting a sweet old wooden pull toy

with no chips or significant scratches

with the pieces fitting together by way of posts and holes but my favorite thing is the numbers carved across the joints where the pieces meet

executed in crayon on lined paper

World's Biggest Show, Wonderful Hand-drawn 1908 Postcard carving of woman with terrific backs featuring aSnake charmers, vaudeville, strong man, fortune teller, oh my! All at the Normal Gym, in Illinois, and all for a dime! I love every inch of this so much, perhaps the drawings of clown and giraffe and elephant most of all. I'd guess maybe the event was a high school fundraiser or something along those lines, but don't know for sure but I'd love to think all of the invitations that went out were hand drawn postcards like this one, which is postmarked