A bouquet of pink roses with green leaves fills a gilded woven basket tied with a green ribbon bow, set against a textured off-white ground. The card carried family news from Greensburg to Manor Station: the sender wrote to a cousin about a wreck at Jeannette that struck Mildred Felton and about attending her funeral. Jeannette was then a glassmaking center in western Pennsylvania, and the note turns a decorative floral card into a record of ordinary family news and a local disaster.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
Dear Cousin
Received
your card and thank
you for it. Did you
hear about the awful
wreck at Jeannette
and about it smashing
Mildred Felton it
was an awful smash
I was at her funeral but
Embossed gold accents; no printed text on front; light surface wear and stains. Postmark: GREENSBURG PA. APR 19 4 PM 1909. Divided-back card with multilingual Weltpostverein header; embossed floral front; pencil date 'Apr 19/09' at top left; pencil annotation 'Mina, Apr' along left edge; dealer stock codes '112 Flower 4.00' and '15C9' in pencil at top; message trimmed at bottom edge.
Cite this card
Roses in a gilded basket, Greensburg, PA, 1909, postcard, c. 1909. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/roses-in-a-gilded-basket-greensburg-pa-1909. Accessed November 2, 2026.
