Two solemn, beautifully dressed children huddle together against the grey stone columns of a snow-blanketed Austro-Hungarian courtyard — the younger in a deep crimson velvet coat trimmed in white fur, the elder in a grey suit with white stockings — beside an oversized calendar board bearing a bold red numeral "1" wreathed in evergreen boughs, the universal symbol of New Year's Day: this tinted real-photograph postcard (hand-colored in the soft, dreamy palette of early 1910s European studio photography) carries the greeting "Herzlichen Neujahrsgruss!" (Heartfelt New Year's Greetings!) and was posted on December 29, 1912 from Salzburg, Austria, with a 10-heller Imperial Austrian Crown stamp, addressed to "Fräulein Movia Schächt in Moghein, Tözit Strazzgirola, hen Samt Salzburg." The written message on the reverse, in German cursive script, opens warmly addressing a "Liebe Freundin" (dear friend) and is dated "ot. 29/12 u. 1912," offering a touching cross-seasonal greeting from one young woman to another in the waning days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.