A "A Joyful Christmas" greeting card with an embossed ivy sprig above a small framed landscape showing a rustic bridge, fence, and trees. The design is typical of early-20th-century holiday cards that paired floral ornament with a sentimental rural scene.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
My Dear Friend I wish to
thank you for the nice
present you sent me
Mr Walkins and I thought
we would have our
pictures taken once
more for our children
they dont know about it and so
will be very much surprised
I am agoing to send you one
for I know you will want it
let the girls see it wish I had
enough for them we are
getting so old we shall never have
it again my husband was 75 the 6
day of last July I was 58 the 9
of last Feb write soon Phebe
Silver border; embossed ivy leaves; printed number 530 at lower right; diagonal crease at upper right and scattered staining.
Postmark: ONEONTA DEC 24 9:30 AM 1907. Divided-back chromolithograph Christmas card; light creasing, edge wear and a few stains.
Cite this card
A Joyful Christmas card with ivy, Oneonta, NY, 1907, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/a-joyful-christmas-card-with-ivy-oneonta-ny-1907. Accessed November 2, 2026.
