A whimsical Edwardian girl in a striped yellow coat and green beret dances forward holding an oversized lace-trimmed floral medallion bursting with daisies, holly berries, and deep purple blooms — her ribbon streaming behind her like a New Year's banner — and the message she carries turned out to be a very practical one: on December 26, 1916, the Qui Vive Dancing Club of Cleveland mailed this embossed New Year greeting as a party reminder, announcing their next dance for Tuesday, January 2nd, 1917, at Day's, Broadway & Harvard, promising "Swell Music — Good Eats" and signed by President John Moses, Vice President Jacob Lustig, and Secretary-Treasurer Claude Shimmon. The card was addressed to H.J. Carroll at 3349 E. 71st Street, Cleveland — a wonderfully intact social artifact from a city dancing club at the height of the ragtime era, just weeks before America would enter World War I. The embossed, die-cut style illustration (series NY-99, made in USA) is typical of the finest American holiday card printing of the period.