I'll tell - tell her on the telephone--I'll tell Tilly I want her for my own – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: I'll tell - tell her on the telephone--I'll tell Tilly I want her for my own, preserved in this vintage postcard. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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I'll tell - tell her on the telephone--I'll tell Tilly I want her for my own
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This color postcard from 1909 takes its caption from a line of popular song: a suitor vows to phone Tilly and claim her for his own. The card shows a courting couple with a telephone, an object that was still a novelty in many American homes at the time. Postcards like this, printed in the H.E.L. Theochrom series, were mass-produced in the early 1900s, when color halftone printing had made cheap, colorful cards widely available. Sentimental scenes paired with sung lyrics were a common formula, so the card reflects both the romance of the day and the era's fascination with the new telephone.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (postcard) : halftone, color. |
| Genre | Postcards 1900-1910.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H.E.L. Theochrom Serie No. 1125. |
| Subjects | Couples--1900-1910. Courtship--1900-1910. Telephones--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,706 × 3,821 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219710 |
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