A jubilant bed of pansies — purple, lavender, gold, and white — frames the bold gilt numerals "1911" on this vividly chromolithographed and embossed New Year card, the year rendered in elegant white block letters edged in gold against a soft gray ground. Printed in Germany and mailed in time for the New Year, the card carries a handwritten message on the back addressed to a recipient in what appears to be Clarksville or a nearby New York locale, with the sender identified only by a first name. The pansy, a Victorian and Edwardian symbol of remembrance and loving thoughts, was one of the most popular motifs for New Year greetings of this era, and this example's jewel-toned chromolithography — printed in Germany at the height of that industry's craft — remains remarkably vivid after more than a century.