{"id":4782,"date":"2018-05-12T17:02:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T21:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieborden.org\/CuratorsCorner\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2018-05-14T15:19:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T19:19:02","slug":"a-coveted-calling-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/2018\/05\/12\/a-coveted-calling-card\/","title":{"rendered":"A Coveted Calling Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As with most things, there really is no way of knowing exactly what the day will bring at the FRHS \u2013 or in this instance, what the mail will bring. That is what makes it interesting \u2013 or so it is said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0It recently arrived in a plain, No. 7 envelope with a South Carolina postmark, no return address, and a brief, unsigned note: \u201cThought you would like this for your collection.\u201d Eight words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yes, the anonymous donor was correct in their estimation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Carefully folded within the note was a plastic sandwich bag of the type my mother used for lunches when I was a parochial school kid, and contained within that was a calling card. Not a run-of-the mill calling card, but an extraordinary calling card, perhaps the Holy Grail of Fall River calling cards \u2013 rare and desirable to any collector of local ephemera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Why so coveted? Because it is all in the name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Printed on the card: Miss Lizbeth A. Borden, Maplecroft, Fall River.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The imprint dates the piece to after circa 1905; its history, at least for the time being, is unknown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So, thank you, anonymous donor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizzieborden.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CallingCard.png\" rel='prettyPhoto'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4864 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lizzieborden.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CallingCard-300x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CallingCard-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CallingCard-768x544.png 768w, https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CallingCard-1024x726.png 1024w, https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CallingCard-860x610.png 860w, https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CallingCard.png 1717w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with most things, there really is no way of knowing exactly what the day will bring at the FRHS \u2013 or in this instance, what the mail will bring. That is what makes it interesting \u2013 or so it is said. \u00a0It recently arrived in a plain, No. 7 envelope with a South Carolina &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[35,48,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4866,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions\/4866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}