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This humorous clown postcard was sent to Enrico Caruso by Mario. The "humor" category contains all the postcards intended to make the viewer laugh. The “jokes” of the postcards can include children posed with chamber pots, giraffes with their necks…

Antonio Pini-Corsi, an operatic baritone then singing with the Metropolitan Opera, sent this postcard to his tenor friend in 1900. The card shows the Masonic Temple in Chicago, with a hand drawn musical score along the bottom. This "travel and…

"Military and hunting" postcards collected by Caruso display idealized masculinity and strength to the viewer. This postcard comes from a series of German soldiers with detailed styles of historical uniforms, as opposed to the action of the troops.…

This landscape postcard was sent to Enrico Caruso by his common law wife, Ada Giachetti, in 1900. "Landscape and flower" postcards show rustic country sides, leafy orchards and bouquet after bouquet of flowers. These images tend to evoke the romance…

This card was sent from Filippo Galante to Enrico Caruso in 1903. The miscellaneous category of cards, to which this card belongs, represent the oddities among the cards. They depict children playing with a tea set or the seedy side of "Le Notte." …

This card was sent from Enrico Caruso to Miss Izora O. Hunter. The card shows a self-caricature of Caruso, who was well known for his talent as a caricaturist. He published weekly illustrations in an Italian language newspaper for many years while he…

When Barioletti drew a couple on the front of this postcard in 1905, he was using the only space available on which to write a message. Before 1907, messages were not allowed by law on the address side of postcards. The word postcard comes from U.S.…

In 1901, Caruso’s lover Ada Balducci used this postcard as a quick, easy way to send a message and update, as we use text messages, Snapchat, and Twitter today. The "women and fashion" section of the collection speaks to images of women in popular…

Enrico Caruso's image was used on his Victor record albums. Caruso’s huge popularity in the U.S. and Europe came in part from these recordings, beginning in 1904. Caruso's work with Victor showed surprising business acumen given his lack of formal…

Enrico Caruso joked around during a family vacation in the Hamptons shortly before his death in 1921. The humor evident in Caruso’s anecdotes matches the humor often demonstrated in the cards.