Two children stand before a glowing brick fireplace on Christmas morning — one in a pale blue frock gazing up in delight, the other in white blouse and green knickerbockers brandishing a gleaming brass trumpet aloft, a candy cane and a little doll tumbled onto the patterned rug at their feet. A holly-decked clock ticks on the mantel, capturing a timeless domestic Christmas scene in soft embossed chromolithography. Mailed from Cleveland, Ohio on November 11, 1916 — just as the U.S. hovered on the edge of entering the Great War — the card carries a tender "With love from Claudia & Blanche" to Miss Catherine Carroll at 3749 East 71st Street (the same address that received the Tuck card two years earlier, suggesting a family postcard collection in the making). The 1¢ Washington stamp completes a compact slice of home-front life.