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To My Dear Friend floral greeting, Fitchburg, MA, 1908

Subjects
General GreetingsNew Year's
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1908 (Golden Age)
Front of To My Dear Friend floral greeting, Fitchburg, MA, 1908, Annie Robeck, MA, USA, c. 1908 lithograph postcard
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Back of To My Dear Friend floral greeting, Fitchburg, MA, 1908, Annie Robeck, MA, USA, c. 1908 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

A floral greeting built around the printed phrase “TO MY DEAR FRIEND,” with the word FRIEND formed from purple violets and surrounded by red carnation-like blossoms, green leaves, and grasses on a cream ground. A small dark swastika sits at the lower left, a common good-luck emblem in the years before World War I. The card carried a New Year’s wish from Fitchburg to Clinton, Massachusetts, and the sender asked that Bertha and Edith be told to write.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pencil

Dear Bertha When you are not busy tell Bertha and Edith to write to you - wish you a happy new year. from Freeda Stetson

TO MY DEAR FRIEND
PostmarkedFitchburg, MA, December 30, 1908, 16:30
Addressed to
Annie Robeck

Water St. Clinton, MA

Postcard record

Postmarked, Fitchburg, MA
SeriesN 701
ConditionFair
Place addressedAnnie Robeck, Water St., Clinton, MA
NotesEmbossed/glazed chromolithograph finish; visible crease and surface wear at upper right; swastika used as a pre-WWI good-luck symbol. Postmark: FITCHBURG MASS. DEC 30 4-30P 1908. Divided-back card with pencil message; stamp removed (small remnant at top right); card creased, soiled and worn.

Cite this card

To My Dear Friend floral greeting, Fitchburg, MA, 1908, postcard, c. 1908. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/to-my-dear-friend-floral-greeting-fitchburg-ma-1908. Accessed November 2, 2026.