Antique & Vintage Postcards

Three rosy-cheeked children stand before a magnificent triptych of stained-glass church windows in this charming 1923 Easter greeting — a girl in white with a blue sash cradles a pot of spring flowers, a boy in a harlequin-check suit holds a lily plant, and a smaller girl in red clutches yet more blooms, her bonnet trimmed in red. The palette is pure Edwardian-to-early-Jazz-Age sweetness: soft pinks, blues, and the jewel-toned glow of the windows behind them. Sent from St. Augustine, Florida, in March 1923 — just days before an advertised "Landing of Ponce de León" commemoration on April 4–6 — a grandmother named with initials "A.D." mailed this 1¢ card to her dear one in Cleveland, noting it was "a lazy day" and that the card cost "12 cents." The Whitney-made mark and the embossed, multi-color printing place this firmly in the quality greeting-card tradition of the period.