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Maude Sends Flowers in January – Trevorton, PA (1909)

Bertha Crawford lived in Trevorton, a “census-designated place” in Northumberland County of east-central Pennsylvania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevorton,_Pennsylvania

In January of 1909, Bertha received a postcard from her friend, Maude Gottshall.

(I cannot decipher the PA place from which the postcard was mailed.)

The face of the postcard has no printed greeting, but bears a lovely drawing of flowers, pink and blue.

On the reverse, Maude writes only, “From your friend…”

We cannot know if Bertha had a birthday in January, if Maude was still sending greetings for the New Year, or if some special purpose inspired the sending of the postcard.

It is a charming thing, and one hopes that Bertha was pleased by it.

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