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
The greeting was signed
To Faith from Aunt Eur.
Here’s a pretty image of a young woman with her hair pulled tightly back into a bun, but she managed to keep some of the fashionable frisée curls at her hairline. She has a ruffled collar under her dress and some kind of adornment that I can’t quite make out.
The photo was made at Chas. A. Saylor’s City Gallery in Reading, PA. There are a few other images made by Saylor on the site – click the category Chas. A. Saylor under Photographers to see them all.
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
Hearty Christmas Greetings
and every good wish for
the New Year
Miss Sylvia Mahl
Omaha, Nebraska
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 sleigh ride last night.
Got home at 12 o’clock.
Love from
Olga & Mabel
Who Were They? 