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Subject: Re: [TMG] Source List
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:59:07 EST
In a message dated 12/1/2002 9:23:01 AM Pacific Standard Time,
writes:
> I would be interested in knowing if this tradition started in the Midwest or
> elsewhere. I suspect that technology (i.e. mimeographs) had to be invented
> before these became commonplace.
>
The oldest I have is 1943, Colorado. I suspect they go back a good many more
years than that. Calling cards were long before the mimeograph, so probably
the only technology needed was the printing press.
Fran Anderson
Olympia, Washington, USA
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