Happy New Year greeting card with man burning brush, circa 1910

About this postcard

A greeting card for the New Year built around a framed vignette of a man in a straw hat, white shirt and red vest, using a long-handled rake or hoe to tend a smoking brush fire beside a pond or stream, with tall pines behind and yellow-and-red flowers in the foreground. The scene is a rustic genre subject rather than a specific place, typical of early twentieth-century holiday cards that paired seasonal greetings with pastoral or outdoor imagery. The greeting itself is printed in a flowing art-nouveau script below the picture.