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New Year Greeting, floral design, Rural Retreat, VA, 1926

Subjects
General GreetingsNew Year's
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1926 (White Border)
Front of New Year Greeting, floral design, Rural Retreat, VA, 1926, Willie and Virginia Overstreet, VA, USA, c. 1926 lithograph postcard
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Back of New Year Greeting, floral design, Rural Retreat, VA, 1926, Willie and Virginia Overstreet, VA, USA, c. 1926 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

The design frames a printed New Year greeting and a short verse in script with a floral border of red berries, green and pink leaves, and a curving vine. The handwritten note thanks the recipients for presents and asks them to visit "When School closes," closing with a wish for a happy New Year and the initials O.W.S. The note traveled from Rural Retreat to the Overstreet sisters at Trigg, mixing holiday greetings with ordinary family news. New Year postcards were a common early twentieth-century way to send good wishes and a few lines of personal news.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Many thanks for the nice presents You both must come and visit with us when school closes. Wishing you a happy New Years - O.W.S.

PublisherGARTNER & BENDER PUBL'S. CHICAGO.
New Year Greeting If good wishes good can bring, Mine are with you in everything; So take the old love tried and true, On from the old Year, to the New!
PostmarkedRural Retreat, VA, December 28, 1926, 19:00
Stamp
Addressed to
Willie and Virginia Overstreet

Trigg, VA

Postcard record

Postmarked, Rural Retreat, VA
PublisherGARTNER & BENDER PUBL'S. CHICAGO.
ConditionFair
Place addressedWillie and Virginia Overstreet, Trigg, VA
PublisherGARTNER & BENDER PUBL'S. CHICAGO., Chicago, IL
Stamp1c George Washington, green, issued 1909
Stamp10c George Washington, green, perforated on all sides
NotesCream stock, printed floral design, no white border, visible creases and corner wear. Postmark: RURAL RETREAT VA. DEC 28 7-PM 1926. Divided-back card printed by Gartner & Bender, Chicago; pencil dealer note ("112 4.00 N Year") at top edge. Light soiling and corner wear.

Cite this card

New Year Greeting, floral design, Rural Retreat, VA, 1926, postcard, c. 1926. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/new-year-greeting-floral-design-rural-retreat-va-1926. Accessed November 2, 2026.