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"Why Don't You Write?" comic greeting with Native American figure and teepees, circa 1910

Subjects
Comics & HumorGeneral GreetingsNative American Life
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1906 (Early)
Front of "Why Don't You Write?" comic greeting with Native American figure and teepees, circa 1910, Mrs. Minnie Beltzel, WV, USA, c. 1906 lithograph postcard
Front
Back of "Why Don't You Write?" comic greeting with Native American figure and teepees, circa 1910, Mrs. Minnie Beltzel, WV, USA, c. 1906 lithograph postcard
Back

About this postcard

A figure in a red blanket, seen from behind with a single feather in his hair, stands before three blue teepees with smoke rising; the printed text reads "You" above and "WHY DONT YOU WRITE?" below. The design is a comic "reminder to write" greeting, a popular early-20th-century postcard genre that used mock-heroic or stereotyped imagery to prod a correspondent into answering. The scene is a stylized Plains encampment rendered in flat blue and red line printing rather than a documentary view.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Respectfully yours Bernice S

You WHY DONT YOU WRITE ? A. H.—19 --- Post Card THIS SIDE FOR THE ADDRESS
PostmarkedSouth Bend, IN
Stamp
Addressed to
Mrs. Minnie Beltzel

Petersburg, WV

Postcard record

PostmarkedSouth Bend, IN
SeriesA. H.—19
ConditionGood
Place addressedMrs. Minnie Beltzel, Petersburg, WV
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1902, perforated on all sides
NotesThin blue rule border; printed in blue and red on cream stock; handwritten message runs vertically along the right edge; light toning and a faint vertical crease near center. Postmark: SO. BEND, IND 21 830 PM — undivided back with printed "Post Card" heading and "THIS SIDE FOR THE ADDRESS"; 1¢ green Franklin stamp; light soiling, corner/edge wear, faint red smudges.

Cite this card

"Why Don't You Write?" comic greeting with Native American figure and teepees, circa 1910, postcard, c. 1906. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/why-dont-you-write-comic-greeting-with-native-american-figur. Accessed October 25, 2026.