This AZO real photo postcard dates to sometime between 1904 and 1918.
There's little specific information to identify the young woman who is pictured. But we do have a short inscription on the back. I believe it states the following:
church on Sat eve
on the 10' of 7 car
Ever a friend
Maime.
I might be off on a word or two, though, so you can take your own look at the inscription:
Maime isn't all that common of a name any more. According to the website Think Baby Names: "Maime as a name for girls has the meaning 'star of the sea; pearl'. Maime is an alternate spelling of Mamie (Greek, Latin): contraction of Margaret (Greek) 'pearl'. ... Adoption of these forms of Maime was at its apex 135 years ago."
For fun, I typed Maime into Facebook to see if there are any folks today using that name. One of my first results, I kid you not, was a ghost from York, Pennsylvania. I'm not quite sure what to make of that.
Might as well click "Add Friend" and see what happens!
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