A photographic Christmas card from Joe’s niece Gretchen, her husband Jim Welsh, and their son, Michael, probably from the 1950s. Gretchen, in a long dress, reaches up to tug the neckties of framed portraits of Jim and Michael: a pun on “you can tie, but you can’t beat.”
Gretchen was the daughter of Joe’s sister Dodie; she married Jim Welsh, who started at McCormick & Company as the mail boy and became its Executive Vice President. Their story is in Gretchen and the Mail Boy.
