Miss Gladys Shofstall lived in Coatesville, the city on the Brandywine River in Chester County of southeast Pennsylvania.
Coatesville had developed along the Philadelphia – Lancaster Turnpike which was completed before 1800.
In 1924, Coatesville was a center of steel manufacturing and had reached its peak population of about 14,000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatesville,_Pennsylvania
In April of 1924, Gladys received an Easter greeting from her Aunt Belle Miller.
Aunt Belle mailed the postcard from Downingtown, a borough on a branch of the Brandywine Creek that had been an early center of milling in Chester County.
Today, Downingtown has a number of historic structures from the Colonial and the Revolutionary periods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downingtown,_Pennsylvania
Coatesville and Downingtown are still connected by a major highway (“The Lincoln Highway”) and by the Main Line of what had been the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Downingtown is less than nine miles southwest of Coatesville.
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The face of the postcard is an illustration of a white rabbit harnessed to a two-wheeled cart.
The cart, composed of woven strips like a basket, contains another rabbit with dark black ears and a black body.
Behind the black rabbit is a bunch of daffodils and pink blossoms (possibly roses).
The harness appears uncomfortable; the fur of the rabbit is folded and bunched around the harness straps.
Above the images, a printed message proclaims “Easter Thoughts”.
This scene may be a hybrid of photographed and drawn images.
I could not identify the publisher; the postcard was printed in the United States.
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On the reverse, Aunt Belle inscribes only, “From Aunt Belle Miller”.
It is likely that the aunt and niece were sufficiently close that no news needed to be included on the holiday greeting.
One hopes that all enjoyed a wonderful Easter and that many more postcards were exchanged in the years to come.
