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On Which Side Are You? motto postcard, Buffalo, NY, circa 1907

Subject
General Greetings
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1907 (Golden Age)
Front of On Which Side Are You? motto postcard, Buffalo, NY, circa 1907, Prince Pub. Co., NY, USA, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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Back of On Which Side Are You? motto postcard, Buffalo, NY, circa 1907, Prince Pub. Co., NY, USA, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

The design centers the question “On Which Side are You?” within a dark blue and silver floral border. A three-stanza verse below turns the question into a plain moral choice: the wrong side and the right, the gloomy and the bright, the strong and the weak, the false and the true. The final stanza warns that the strong side may be the wrong side, leaving the reader to answer. Moral motto cards were a common early-20th-century postcard form, carrying short improving lines instead of a view. The contrast between light and dark, strength and weakness, gives the card its earnest popular-print tone.

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PublisherPrince Pub. Co.
On Which Side are You? You may look a question over? From any point of view But in reaching a decision, Its sides are only two. The wrong side and right side, The gloomy and the bright side The strong, and the weak side The false side and true. So often the strong side Is really the wrong side The all-important question is, On which side are you .
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PublisherPrince Pub. Co.
ConditionFair
PublisherPrince Pub. Co., Buffalo, NY
NotesDark blue and metallic silver printing on cream stock; heavy age toning and staining, especially at edges; embossed-looking outline accents. No postmark. Divided back; message/address side blank apart from printed MESSAGE and ADDRESS headings and “Post Card” heading. Imprint: Rights Reserved. Prince Pub. Co., Lancaster Ave., Buffalo, N.Y. Light toning/staining; embossed design visible from front.

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On Which Side Are You? motto postcard, Buffalo, NY, circa 1907, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/on-which-side-are-you-motto-postcard-buffalo-ny-circa-1907. Accessed November 2, 2026.