The Band of Hope, Antique Hand-drawn Postcard copper dish running to the bottom edge

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before returning to Sweden in 1953

which vary greatly in terms of degree of darkening during firing

H Stoelting company was the principal American provider for the  material culture of American psychology in the first half of the 20th century

The Band of Hope, Antique Hand-drawn Postcard copper dish running to the bottom edgeI didn't know much at all about the history of "The Band of Hope" when I purchased this early 20th century hand drawn postcard; I just loved this young cast of characters, and also how much one might project into and onto the drawing and text at the present moment, when social gathering and the term hope itself are such charged and contested things. The Band of Hope referred to here is a temperance organization for working class children founded in