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Images courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.
This Christmas card was sent to Frederick Hendrickson from "Santa Claus," aka Mama and Papa, in 1912. They lived in Gary, which in 1912 was six years old.
Assuming I've found the right people in the census, little Frederick was then only about five years old.
If, at the tender age of five, I had received such a card in the mail, I would have spent that Christmas Eve, and every Christmas Eve for many years to come, hiding under the bed so Santa wouldn't get me.
4 comments:
That's a very scary Santa!
But Merry Christmas to you anyway!
Merry Christmas to you too!
Little Freddie must have been a real "terror" to require such extreme intimidation!!
:D Maybe that's it! I hadn't thought of that.
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