I especially like that postcard with the little dog wearing the Red Cross coat and the soldier saying "For the Love O'Pete, How Are Yah!"
It would seem that the artist was relatively famous back in the day, being none other than Haydon Jones, who had quite a career as a newspaper illustrator:
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Haydon Jones (1871-1954) was born in Ohio, and became a fairly well-known and definitely well-traveled illustrator who worked for a series of newspapers, including the New York Mail & Express, the San Francisco Examiner (where he covered a particularly gruesome murder trial, among other things), the New York World when it was owned by Joseph Pulitzer, and the Boston Herald. He also illustrated a number of books.
In 1898 Jones went to Cuba to cover the growing hostilities that eventually became the Spanish-American War, got taken prisoner by the Spanish and was traded back to the Americans, along with another war correspondent, for two Spanish officers.
His wife must have been a very patient and forbearing woman - he was all over the country in what seems like a fairly short time.
More on Haydon Jones and the Red Cross postcard connection:
If you want to read a lengthy magazine article on Haydon Jones (pre-World War I) checkout this link (beginning on page 144):
http://books.google.com/books?id=25...tors&f=false
Posted 09/27/2013 9:19 pm
