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Three pink carnations with verse, Chaseburg, WI, 1908

Subject
General Greetings
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1908 (Golden Age)
Front of Three pink carnations with verse, Chaseburg, WI, 1908, Miss Emma Stahl, WI, USA, c. 1908 lithograph postcard
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Back of Three pink carnations with verse, Chaseburg, WI, 1908, Miss Emma Stahl, WI, USA, c. 1908 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

Three pink carnations with fringed petals rise on long green stems against a pale blue-green ground, with a four-line verse printed in a small scroll at the lower left. The card was sent to Emma Stahl in Chaseburg, Wisconsin, and the note carries ordinary family news: Pa has gone to Ohio, Julius is husking corn, and the weather is cold. Chaseburg is a small village in Vernon County in southwestern Wisconsin, farm country where the fall corn harvest shaped the seasonal work. Carnations were a common sentimental motif on early twentieth-century greeting cards, associated with admiration and affection.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Aunt Emma How are you. We are all well Pa went to Ohio this morning and Julius is husking corn. it is cold here Father Deling

The world is filled with flowers, The flowers are filled with dew, The dew is filled with love For you, and you, and you.
PostmarkedOctober 14, 1908, 08:00
Stamp
Addressed to
Miss Emma Stahl

Chaseburg, WI

Postcard record

Postmarked
ConditionGood
Place addressedMiss Emma Stahl, Chaseburg, WI
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, perforated on all sides
NotesNo white border; light soiling and spotting, worn corners, printed verse in a scroll at lower left. Postmark: OCT 14 1908 (city portion not legible). Divided-back "POST CARD" with one-cent green Franklin stamp; pencil message; light toning and edge wear; publisher's monogram in diamond border at top left of back.

Cite this card

Three pink carnations with verse, Chaseburg, WI, 1908, postcard, c. 1908. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/three-pink-carnations-with-verse-chaseburg-wi-1908. Accessed November 2, 2026.