Heavily embossed golden bells and holly frame a snowy church scene on this German-printed Christmas card, posted from Panama City through Balboa, Canal Zone in December 1918 to a young woman in Baltimore — a striking pairing of a snow-covered European greeting-card scene with a genuinely tropical Canal Zone postmark.

• Caption: "Christmas Greetings"
• Publisher: Printed in Germany [no further publisher imprint]
• Postmark: Balboa, Canal Zone — Dec 12, 8 AM, C.Z. [1918]
• Status: Posted