School lesson for the kitties

This Victorian trade card features some tortoiseshell kittens attempting to learn geography from an adult black cat, while two other kittens wait their turn. It's an interesting map. It almost looks like it has a south-up orientation, but I'm clearly reading too much into it; it's obviously just some colored blotches in the vague resemblance of a map. Also, an illustration of cats looking at a map is hardly the place to comment on cultural and socioeconomic bias as normalized through geography.

As you can see, no publisher is listed on the front of the 4⅜-inch-wide card, and the reverse side is blank. But based on some other evidence I found online, it's likely this is from a series that was issued in the 1880s or 1890s by Dieter's Crown Baking Powder. According to the below 1980 advertisement from the  Xenia (Ohio) Daily Gazette, Dieter's Crown Baking Powder was "recommended by the highest medical and chemical authorities, who testify to its absolutely purity, wholesomeness and wonderful strength."

Wisconsin map postcard mailed in 1966

This nifty and colorful "Lusterchrome" postcard, made by Tichnor Bros., was mailed in July 1966 from Waukesha, Wisconsin, to my great-grandmother in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. The card itself must have been produced before 1966, though, because it includes mention of the Milwaukee Braves. In 1966, the Braves relocated from Milwaukee to Atlanta. 

The cursive note on the back states:

July 24th.

Hi. Have been here in Wisc. for a month but leaving Milw. in morn for Fla. My sister-in-law came as far as Ft. Wayne with me & I'll pick her up about Wed. to drive back — Country beautiful and lush — My son and family will fly home from Singapore in Oct. for a month. Hope you are O.K.

Claire

Other Wisconsin-related posts

• Matchbook: Hartwig's The Gobbler Supper Club & Gobbler Motel
• Postcards: Lakes in Wisconsin and Vermont, and a river in England
• Old postcard: The Carnegie library of Tomah, Wisconsin
• 1911 holiday postcard sent to Hortonville, Wisconsin
• Annotated postcard for Beaver Dam High School in Wisconsin
• Christmas postcard mailed to Mattoon, Wisconsin, in 1910
• Christmas-themed QSL card from Appleton, Wisconsin