The card presents a gold-framed inset winter landscape: a dark, many-gabled house in snow beneath a streaked sunset sky, with bare trees and a small snow-covered foreground. Pine boughs, pinecones, and two red poinsettias frame the scene at left and right, and the greeting "A Merry Christmas to You" is printed in stylized black lettering. The poinsettia and evergreen motifs are traditional Christmas symbols; the scene itself is generic rather than a named location.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
A merry Christmas
to all
from
the family
Translation
A [illegible]
Christmas and
New Year
wishes
you all
[illegible]
Family [illegible]
PostmarkedCUTTENBERG, IA, December 19, 1916, 13:00
Gold-outlined inset; printed number 3129 at lower right; light staining, edge wear, and a small crease at upper right.
Postmark: GUTTENBERG IOWA DEC 19 1 PM 1916. Divided-back card with embossed floral/poinsettia relief on the address side; 1¢ green Washington stamp with heavy wavy cancel; light edge wear, toning and a few stains.
Cite this card
Christmas greeting, winter house scene, Guttenberg, IA, 1916, postcard, c. 1916. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/christmas-greeting-winter-house-scene-guttenberg-ia-1916. Accessed November 2, 2026.
