A lone farmer in a blue smock and cap stands behind a team of two oxen hitched to a multi-tine cultivator on a rocky, freshly turned Swedish field — a red-roofed farmhouse and birch-lined forest rising behind him in this beautifully hand-colored real-photo postcard postmarked January 31, 1913, from Woburn, Massachusetts. The card was sent by Sofia to a woman named Mrs. G. Olson on Beach Street in Woburn, written in flowing Swedish: "Hälsningar från Stoneham / Vi mår alla gott, var roligt att Edwald liknade vårt smör mäd mammas då måste det väl vara bra för mammas är väl bäst ändå / vänligen Sofia." Translated, Sofia sends greetings from Stoneham, notes that everyone is well, and charmingly remarks that it was funny that Edwald compared their butter to his mother's — because of course mother's is best. This intimate domestic exchange between Swedish immigrants in Massachusetts, written on a postcard depicting their homeland's agrarian past, is a poignant capsule of immigrant life in early 20th-century New England. The card was published by Fredyk Peterson of 56 Bromfield St., Boston — the same publisher as the Cuban fruit store card — and printed in Germany. Franked with a US 1-cent Washington stamp.