A pine-bough border heavy with cones and needles frames a circular vignette of a snow-dusted German medieval streetscape — half-timbered façades, a church steeple, and a cobblestone lane bathed in winter blue — giving this 1911 holiday card the cozy intimacy of a snow globe you could hold in your palm. Printed in Germany during the golden age of lithographic postcards, the card traveled from Washington D.C. on December 21, 1911, bearing a one-cent Franklin stamp, addressed to a young woman named Marguerite in Poolesville, Indiana. The handwritten message on the reverse is warm and personal, mentioning sending the card and Saturday plans, offering a rare glimpse into Edwardian social correspondence just before the Christmas holiday.