Name/Title
Postcards, Halftone: Seasonal Postcards and Greeting CardsEntry/Object ID
1995.010.02.02Description
[2]: Postcard, Halftone: Calendar with a water scene.
One color halftone calendar postcard depicting a water scene and surrounded by a boarder of violets and ivy.
[3]: Postcard, Halftone: Children Picking Apples. One color halftone picture postcard depicting children in an orchard picking bright red apples. [4]: Postcard, Haftone: "Aylmer". One color halftone picture postcard depicting a pink rose and a small bunch of purple violets, printed on the front of the card "Aylmer". [5]: Postcard, Halftone: "A Happy Easter". One color halftone picture postcard depicting a blonde baby in a large red Easter Egg and a brown rabbit both are on grass with tiny white flowers, printed on the front in black ink: "A Happy Easter". [6]: Postcard, Halftone: "Christmas Greeting.� �. One color halftone picture postcard depicting a fireplace with three stockings hanging to the left of the fire, there are holly leaves and berries decorating the front of the card, printed on the front in gold ink:
"Christmas Greeting". [7]: Postcard, Halftone: "Five Dutch Girls in Traditional Costume".
One color halftone picture postcard depicting five Dutch girls in traditional costume, printed on the front in red ink: "To Mine Luv. / Don't be afraid / of the little Dutch Maid." [8]: Photographic Postcard, Halftone: "Otter Lake". One color halftone photographic postcard depicting a couple, the woman is wearing a white dress and is sitting on a low stone wall. The man is wearing a dark suit and leaning against the wall next to the woman. There are trees and bushes in the background and around the photograph are white clouds. There is an orange flag with "Otter Lake" printed on it in black ink. Printed on the front in black ink: "Too Busy to Write Since I Came to / OTTER LAKE / DON'T WORRY". [9]: Postcard, Halftone: "Armful of Joy". One color halftone picture postcard depicting a woman in a red dress holding a large round hat box decorated with pink roses and with a red bow on the top. Printed on the front in black ink: "6320 /
Armful of Joy". [10]: Postcard, Halftone: Young girl in a garden with a basket of flowers. One color halftone picture postcard depicting a young girl in a white dress with a blue sash, white knee socks and white shoes, she is standing in a rose garden and is holding a basket filled with flowers. [11]: Postcard, Halftone: "Greet thee Valentine". One color halftone picture postcard depicting two cherubs one playing a horn and the other is holding percussion mallet, envelopes sealed
with tiny red hearts, and a white dove with wings out stretched. Printed on the front in red and gold ink: "To My / Valentine / A Token / of / Affection". [15]: Postcard, Halftone: "Jennie". One color halftone picture postcard depicting purple lilacs and leaves, printed on the front in gold ink: "Jennie".
[16]: Postcard, Halftone: "Easter Greetings". One color halftone picture postcard depicting a silver cross and seven small yellowish brown birds sitting on a branch with leaves and flowers, printed on the front in the top left corner: "Easter Greetings". [17]: Postcard, Halftone: "Valentine Greetings". One color halftone picture postcard depicting a woman wearing a purple dress with red flowers, long black gloves, a bonnet with red flowers, purple ribbon and black feather. At her feet are papers, books with hearts on the covers and a over turned ink well spilling black ink, printed under the image in black ink: "Valentine Greetings / The one who seeks my hand and heart / must be well bred and versed in art." [18]: Postcard,
Halftone: "A Glad Christmas to You."
One color halftone picture postcard depicting a bouquet of white flowers with green leaves and sprigs of small red flowers, printed at the bottom in green ink: "A Glad Christmas to You." [19]: Postcard, Halftone: "With Christmas Greetings". One color halftone picture postcard depicting an inscription surrounded by an ornate blue and green boarder, below the inscription are holly leaves and berries. Inscription printed in red, black and gold ink: "May good betide you all your days / The smiles of Fortune may you win / And day by day good angles guard / Your going out and comming in." [20]: Postcard, Halftone: "With my Hearts Best
Love".
One color halftone picture postcard depicting a cherub or cupids in a heart, above the heart are bunches of forget-me-nots and two white doves. Above the doves is a pinkish ribbon tied into a bow and decorated with more forget-me-nots. The ends of the ribbons are hanging from wreaths of tiny forget-me-nots in the upper corners; there are gold hearts in the centers of the wreaths. Printed on the front bottom right corner in red and blue ink: "With / My Hearts / Best Love". [21]: Postcard, Halftone: "Christmas Greetings". One color halftone picture postcard depicting a small portrait of Father Christmas, holly leaves and berries, and a portrait of a little girl in a red dress with a white bonnet, printed under the image in gold ink: "Christmas Greetings". [22]: Postcard, Halftone: "With my Love". One color halftone picture postcard depicting a boy in a white and blue sailor suit working a water pump, at his is a wicker basket if
red hearts. Next to the basket is a naked cherub with small pink wings and behind the boy is pink flowers growing up a trellis, printed in the top right corner in dark ink: "With my Love".
[23]: Postcard, Halftone: "Birthday Greetings". One color halftone picture postcard depicting an oval shoreline picture surrounded with a decorative white boarder. There are two long bouquets of blue forget-me-nots above and below the picture. Around the card is a thick beige boarder and printed in the top right corner in red ink: Birthday / Greetings." [24]: Postcard, Halftone: "When Fortune Smiles". One black and white halftone postcard depicting an inscription with a partial image of a shelf with plates as stein at the top left and an image of a cigar box in the bottom right. The inscription printed in black ink: "When / Fortune / smiles may / we never / squander / her favors." [25]: Postcard, Halftone: "Long may we live". One color halftone postcard depicting an inscription with brass bells decorated with snow and holly leaves and berries in the top left corner, in the top
right corner is a field in winter and in the bottom right corner is two small birds perched on long blades of grass. Inscription printed in red and black ink: "Long may we Live, / Long may we Love, / And long may we / be happy." [26]: Postcard, Halftone: "A Bright and happy New
Year to you". One color halftone postcard depicting light and dark pink wild roses and a green rectangular text box with an inscription in dark green ink: "A Bright and happy / New Year to you". [27]: Postcard, Halftone: "All joy to you this Eastertide". One color halftone postcard depicting a field with a brown rabbit with a blue ribbon, a wagon with colored Easter eggs and blue flowers, a baby chick hatching out of one of the Easter eggs on the grass, printed in the top
left corner in black ink: "All Joy To You This / Eastertide." [28]: Postcard, Halftone: "Wishing You A Merry Christmas". One color halftone postcard depicting a blonde toddler in white footie pants and shirt, he is carrying a black stocking stuffed full of toys andLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Postcard, PictureNomenclature Primary Object Term
PostcardNomenclature Sub-Class
Writing MediaNomenclature Class
Written Communication T&ENomenclature Category
Category 06: Tools & Equipment for CommunicationSearch Terms
Communication ArtifactsLegacy Lexicon
Object Name
Picture postcard, Halftone, PostcardDimensions
Height
14 cmWidth
9 cmDimension Notes
Approx. measure. Each item requires re-measuring.