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New Year greeting with finches above a farmhouse vignette, Lineville, IA, 1909

Subjects
BirdsGeneral GreetingsNew Year's
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1907 (Golden Age)
Front of New Year greeting with finches above a farmhouse vignette, Lineville, IA, 1909, Edith Conrad, IA, USA, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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Back of New Year greeting with finches above a farmhouse vignette, Lineville, IA, 1909, Edith Conrad, IA, USA, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

A New Year greeting card showing a row of small birds, finches and redpolls in pink, yellow, and green plumage, perched along the top of an embossed gold frame. Inside the frame is a small landscape vignette of a white farmhouse with red chimneys among trees and fields. The card was mailed from Princeton, Missouri, in December 1909 to Edith Conrad in Lineville, Iowa, in care of H. E. Conrad.

Postcard Details

Message · English

Dear Ethel I thaught wanted to send all a post card how are you love all write from Mary anna

PublisherJ.B. & Co.
With New Year Greetings
PostmarkedDecember 24, 1909 6pm
MO
Stamp
Addressed to
Edith Conrad

in care of H. E. Conrad Lineville, IA

Postcard record

Postmarked, MO
PublisherJ.B. & Co.
ConditionGood
Place addressedEdith Conrad, in care of H. E. Conrad, Lineville, IA
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, perforated on all sides
NotesEmbossed gold frame around the inset scene; silver-gray textured background; worn corners and light edge wear; divided-back stock. Postmark: PRINC[ETON?] MO. DEC 24 1909 6 PM; divided-back "POST CARD." ("THIS SIDE FOR CORRESPONDENCE" / "THE ADDRESS TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE"), "PRINTED IN GERMANY" at right edge, J.B. & Co. monogram lower left; embossed gold-framed New Year greeting card ("With New Year Greetings"); faint purple pencil notation; light soiling, foxing and corner wear.

Cite this card

New Year greeting with finches above a farmhouse vignette, Lineville, IA, 1909, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/new-year-greeting-with-finches-above-a-farmhouse-vignette-li. Accessed November 13, 2026.