Catherine Sends Children Bearing Gifts – Watertown, NY (1915)

Martha Edgar lived in Greensboro, a town along the Choptank River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro,_Maryland

In December of 1915, Martha received a Christmas postcard from Catherine Brown.

Catherine mailed the postcard from Watertown, a city on the Black River of the “North Country Region” of New York State.

In the early 20th century, Watertown still enjoyed prosperity from the many mills that lined the Black River.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watertown,_New_York

The face of the postcard is a whimsical drawing of two children, a boy and a girl, in garb that may be Dutch.

The children traverse a snowy field; the boy carries a wrapped gift and a pine bough, the girl bears an armful of holly branches behind her enormous muff.

Beneath the drawing is a printed inscription, “Merry Christmas to You and Yours”.

The design is spare and uncluttered – representative of the big change in postcard designs that began with the demise of the trans-Atlantic postcard trade during World War I.

The postcard was published by “The Art of Pink Perfection”, the logo of the Fairman Company of Cincinnati and New York.

https://postcardy.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-pink-of-perfection.html

On the reverse, Catherine inscribes a greeting, “Merry Xmas and happy New Year”.

One hopes that Martha and Catherine enjoyed a splendid Christmas in 1915.

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