An icicle-draped pergola heavy with snow frames a luminous winter garden scene, scarlet maple leaves clinging stubbornly to frost-rimed branches above stone steps dusted white, while below the soft-focus pastoral image a graceful New Year verse reads: "In the music of the pine / You'll hear my greeting, friend of mine, / And like the pine tree's lovely sheen / The thought of you is evergreen" — a postcard so elegantly sentimental it could only belong to the 1920s. Mailed from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on December 29, 1923, this embossed greeting card is densely written on the reverse in a close, urgent hand, the message spanning both the correspondence section and bleeding into the margins, suggesting a writer with much to say and little room to say it — addressed to a Mr. Wm. in New York City at 420 W. 119th St., Apt. 62. The card is marked "Made in USA" and "Series 1070 D," indicating a domestic publisher's greeting line. The Milwaukee machine cancel with its "REGISTER OR INSURE VALUABLE MAIL" slogan die is a nice philatelic touch. A richly human artifact of the Jazz Age winter mail.