A haunting little slice of early 20th-century humor—or perhaps quiet despair—captured in this rare 1909 postcard. The front features a colored illustration of a man shivering in a clawfoot bathtub, his face contorted into a pitiful, almost ghostly grimace. The phrase "It's All Right in the Summer Time" floats beneath the image, offering a chilling contrast to the figure’s clearly wintry misery. What was intended as comic relief now reads like a postcard from purgatory.
 
Postmarked October 16, 1909 in Boston, Massachusetts, and addressed to Allie Porter of Ramond, New Hampshire, this card has borne the wear of time. There’s a prominent fold and tear near the top quarter and a hole dead center at the top—undoubtedly from years pinned to a wall, like a warning or a reminder.
 
Whether you see it as vintage ephemera or an accidental piece of dark art, this postcard is a perfect relic for collectors of odd humor, antique mail, or the eerie echoes of Edwardian sorrow.
 
A note of character: Damaged but enduring, like the best of haunted things.