A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, snowy village scene with holly, circa 1910
- Card type
- Government postal card
About this postcard
A chromolithographed holiday greeting: an oval vignette shows three warmly dressed figures, two adults and a child, walking along a snow-covered path toward a village church or house beneath a golden winter sky, framed by sprays of holly with red berries at the corners. The greeting 'A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year' is printed below in decorative lettering with colored initials. Cards of this style, with embossed accents and holly borders, were standard Christmas and New Year greetings exchanged in the United States and Europe in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Postcard Details
Lorine Orville, IA
Postcard record
| Condition | Good |
|---|---|
| Place addressed | Eddith Cozad, Lorine, Orville, IA |
| Stamp | 1c Benjamin Franklin, green, perforated on all sides |
| Notes | Embossed accents on the holly and lettering; no white border; light soiling and edge wear, small crease at right edge. Divided-back government postal card; postmark largely illegible (only fragments like "TOW" and "10" visible over the stamp), so no date. Pencil message and address; light soiling, corner/edge wear, small tape stain at right edge. |
Cite this card
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, snowy village scene with holly, circa 1910, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/a-merry-christmas-and-a-happy-new-year-snowy-village-scene-w. Accessed November 13, 2026.