We don’t much send New Year greetings anymore. I suspect the proximity of Christmas to New Year’s dampens the desire to address cards and write letters. In our modern society, sending Christmas cards is almost a rarity anymore. Younger generations find them wasteful, Gen Xers want to send them but instead deal with the guilt …
I don’t know quite how to describe the image on this card – is that a brazier? a smoker? an incense burner? Whatever it is, it wafts smoke around several large poinsettia blooms. The greeting reads I am hoping Christmas pleasures Will wait to say good bye Until another Christmas Has brought a fresh supply …
It’s Christmas Day – what are you doing here? :-) My wish for you on Christmas is a happy, healthy, safe day with family in whatever way it can occur – IRL, over the phone or via zoom. Today’s pretty card features lovely poinsettia blooms and a red, spiral candle in a fancy candlestick. With …
A pretty card decorated with pine boughs, holly and pinecones frames a pastoral scene of a house with snow. The card announces Merry Christmas Mailed in 1912 by Charles Chodl, the card made its way from Milwaukee, WI to Miss Anna Chodl in Chicago, IL.
This postcard is quite lovely. It features a mother and child, reminiscent of the Madonna and Jesus. Holly leaves and berries grace the right hand side, and the greeting reads A Holy Happy Christmas It was sent from Olga & Mabel to Anna Chodl on December 24, 1907. The card back reads Had a fun …
Who Were They? 