Miss Dora Wilson lived in Rosemont, an unincorporated community atop a small hill in Delaware Township in Hunterdon County of west-central New Jersey.
Rosemont is a crossroads community amid farmland that borders the Delaware River.
The postcard has a receiving postmark of “Sergeantsville”, another unincorporated community about 3 miles from Rosemont.
It is possible that Dora may have lived somewhere between the communities.
In February of 1907, Dora received a beautiful art postcard.
The postcard was mailed from Stockton, a small borough on the Delaware River (north of Lambertville) in Hunterdon County, NJ.
The community began as a ferry point, and developed mills and light industry when the Delaware Raritan Canal was completed in the 1830’s and when the Belvedere Delaware Railroad reached the area in 1852.
Stockton is almost two miles south of Rosemont.
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The face of the postcard is a delightful painting of a cottage in winter,
Soft light from the windows sparkles on the frosted bushes and plants in the foreground.
On the bare limbs of a tree stretching over the cottage, we see a coating of ice.
There are no human figures in the painting, but a curious deet cautiously approaches the humble habitation.
An artist’s name, “A. Kircher” is visible in the lower right.
I assume that this is a German craftsman as the postcard was printed in Germany by German-American Novelty Art.
The postcard was published by the Philadelphia Post Card Company.
We have seen other examples of splendid postcard art from this firm:
“A Rooster for Watson” (1907), “Birds in Flight” (1906), “Edna Receives a Hunting Scene” (1906), “Yellow Roses for Kate Moyer” (1907).
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Because the postcard has an “undivided back” with no place for a message, we have no information about the sender in Stockton.
While we are curious about the sender, we are also glad that there was no writing on the face.
Dora preserved the postcard in excellent condition throughout her life.
