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1904 Norway Postcard Lapper med Ren Sami People with Reindeer - Norway to St. Paul Minnesota USA
Early color-tinted postcard captioned \"Lapper med Ren\" (Sami people with reindeer), depicting two Sami individuals in traditional dress with a reindeer in a summer landscape, mountains in background. Publisher imprint at lower left reads \"M. & Co. 27.\" Caption \"Norge\" printed in red upper right. Undivided back \"Brevkort fra Norge (Norvege)\" format. Franked with a 10 ore red Norwegian posthorn stamp, cancelled with a Trondheim machine cancel with parallel bar slogan reading \"COMMERCIAL\" dated Dec 26, 1904, and an arrival cds from St. Paul, Minn. dated Dec 28, 1904. Addressed in ink to \"Froken Jorgine Jensfen, St. Lukes Hospital, St. Paul, Minn., N. Amerika.\" Message written densely in Norwegian across the face of the card, dated 11/2 04, signed Ingvald.
Historical Note
\"Lapper med Ren\" (Lapps with Reindeer) was among the most widely produced Norwegian tourist postcard subjects of the early 1900s, reflecting European fascination with the Sami people of northern Scandinavia. The address to a nurse or patient at St. Lukes Hospital in St. Paul points to the large Norwegian immigrant community in Minnesota at the turn of the century. The matching send and arrival dates - December 26 and 28, 1904 - suggest either a very fast transit or a local mailing routed through Trondheim, worth noting for postal history researchers.
