Neither Absent nor Tardy

Well we know

Cosy Christmas

Dear Santa

Letter to Santa from my daughter Susanna, age 7.

North to Alaska

Check out the ’stache

Please? Um...ok

One of my daughters drew this picture when she was 10, illustrating the time she broke her arm after succumbing to peer pressure. She rode her bike down a steep hill after being told the area was too dangerous.

Now I know, I know that it’s true

1901 birch bark souvenir

Summer of 1901. A souvenir of birch bark from Geo. McLeod of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario to his mother Mrs. Mary McLeod, Tilbury, Ontario. Ethel McLeod wrote her name underneath.

When I’m calling you

William E. McLeod’s homemade calling cards circa 1890.

To My Trail-smitten Sister

Just who or what is Miss Sophie going to roll at the Pole? If you can figure it out, please let me know.

Anywhere Day or Night

This 1910 receipt is for a photo negative/print of a house in West Seattle. Note that Frank H. Nowell was the official photographer for Seattle's 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

Emilienne’s 1916 catechism

Batman on the palace wall

From a young woman's 2004 London travel journal.