Happy Birthday Postcards from the 1900's-- from Pennsylvania

Carrie Bloss Lynde received these birthday Postcards while living in Pennsylvania.  For a penny, one could post these anywhere in the United States.  Carrie received several lovely cards.

This card sports her name with highlights in glitter.  It's embossed where the flowers lie.  Postmarked 1908.

Deep pink roses adorn this gold framed card 'Heartiest Congratulations.'  

Best Wishes for a Happy Birthday is also embossed with gold in an oval frame around a red/pink rose.  It's embossed, no postmark.  

Carrie was born in November, hence the birthstone card and flower.  Dated November 1910.

'Right heartily to greet you on your Birthday' is deeply embossed on the flowers and the border.  Dated November 1910.

'Birthday Greetings' features a basket with red roses tumbling out.  Gold leaf accents outline the basket and the words.  Embossed and printed in Germany.

Birthday Greetings written in gold leaf, as well as outlining the leaves.  A short verse is also written in gold leaf.  Deeply embossed, printed in Germany.  

Birthday Greetings, another deeply embossed floral card.  Printed in Germany.

Birthday Greetings-- a basket with roses and doves bringing letters.  Deeply embossed and gold outlined.  Printed in Germany.

Birthday Greetings outlined in silver.  A cottage on a pond framed by flowers.  This is also deeply embossed, printed in Germany, dated Nov 1910.

'Birthday Greetings' hangs from a fan like a sign or banner.  The fan is decorated with a nature scene.  Light embossing fills the ground, in two layers of paper.  Dated November 1910.

This postcard is completely embossed with 'Birthday Greetings.'  A bouquet of flowers, like sweet peas fills the space.  Dated November 1908.  

This 'Best Wishes' postcard is dated 1910.  It's also embossed and the flowers are outlined in gold.  A small peeled-away section reveals a lovely hamlet with a bridge over a stream and a tree-ringed home.

'Best Wishes for a Glad Birthday' features another peek into a calm lakeside home.  Flowers spray across the card framing the view.  It's embossed, printed in Germany by Davidson Brothers, 'Pictoral Post Cards, series 72.'  Dated 1910.

This heavy card sporting Birthday Greetings features deeply embossed pansies.  It's dated 1908.

This embossed and gold outlined card is dated 1908.  Printed in Germany.

An eagle with a huge bouquet of lavender flowers majestically wishes a happy birthday in this embossed card.  Series 460 c. printed in Germany.  

Although this card doesn't scream birthday, it was sent as a Birthday card.  'All Good Wishes' are offered in a banner in the foreground.  An inset within a green wreath shows a tranquil water-wheel scene.  This embossed and gold leafed card was postmarked November 1911.  

'With Birthday Wishes- -A love more deep than words can say, such love be thine, O friend, to-day.'  This lovely sentiment rests below a watercolor inset of a snowy scene at dusk.  Embossed and dated 1910.  

A wreathed bird brings a love note to the recipient in this 'Birthday Greetings' postcard.  Bells hang from columns wrapped in 4 leaf clover.  Embossed and dated November 1910.  

'A Happy Birthday' with this verse, 'May loving thoughts from friends sincere, make this a day of days.'  This lovely forget-me-not embellished fan is embossed.  Dated November 1910.

The pansies and white poppies are surrounded by a gold-leafed embossed oval.  'Birthday Greetings' is dated November 1910.

This interesting card shows a second layer of paper was embossed to the bird and the lower flowers, creating a deeply embossed relief.  Traces of glue remain beneath the bird.  'A happy Birthday' is simply written across the center, with the bird carrying a letter.  Postmarked 1907.  

'Best Birthday Wishes' come to the recipient with a wreath of small lavendar flowers, bordered by lovely white flowers.  This embossed card is dated November 1910.  

Ribbons tie a sprig of yellow roses in this postcard.  Embossed gold leaf frame the larger rose, almost like the medieval paintings of Christ with the halos.  'A Birthday Greeting' script on the front greets the viewer.  This embossed card is dated November 1908.  

Vintage Easter Postcards from Pennsylvania

Here are more Postcards courtesy of my Pennsylvania cousins.  Very few of these are postmarked-- only one so far.  Perhaps people handed these around on Sunday at Easter services, or at an Easter dinner.  These are from family, just like the others.

This embossed card with a cross and Easter lilies is not dated.  Printed in Germany.

This embossed card features bunnies and lilies.  No date or manufacturer info.

A Joyful Easter is another embossed card, printed in Germany.  Lovely birds and flowers.

Easter joy be with you-- thinner paper and delicate embossing on this Dogwood decorated card.  Printed in Germany.

A Joyful Easter-- lilies wreathed around a cross.  Embossed card from Tucks.  Raphael Tuck and Sons, Easter Post Cards series no. 703.  Art publishers to their majesties the King and Queen.

This embossed postcard reads, 'To wish you a Happy Easter.'  Dogwoods decorate a hillside with a church in the distance.  

This one, featuring bunnies in a car hauling a garden egg, is embossed and metallic.  "May thine be a happy Easter.'  Printed in Germany.

'Easter Greetings' is also embossed with a wreath of pink and white lilies on a brown ground.  

With loving wishes for a happy Easter.  A nice verse with bells and blossoms decorate this embossed card.  Dated Easter 1910.

To Wish you a Happy Easter features a gift with chicks popping through the wrapping.  It's embossed and made by Raphael Tuck and Sons, Easter Post Cards series 300, printed in Saxony by appointment.  Art publishers to their majesties the King and Queen.

A Joyful Easter shows lilies overlaid with a cross, with an inset of a water scene.  It's also embossed, printed in America, dated Easter 1910.

This soft watercolor 'Best Easter Wishes' features a new sunrise among clear roads and lovely flowers.  A verse is partially visible, "The earth awakes at Eastertime, The bells peal forth a happy chime, May every flower of opening Spring, To you and yours much gladness bring."  This card is postmarked April 1919.  

Another verse adorns this baby chick among dogwood blossoms.  'Best Easter Wishes-- Gladness and singing birds and budding trees.  The Season's peace and joy, I wish you these.'  

The Christian Symbol of Christ dominates this embossed 'Easter Greetings' postcard.  Dated April 11, 1909, it features a wreath of lillies around the center of the cross.  

Vintage Valentines, St. Patricks and Thanksgiving Postcards-- the peripheral holidays.

Loving Greetings to my Valentine is postmarked 1908.  Tucks Post Card-- Raphael Tuck and Sons "Valentine Post Card Series No. 19 "Love Missives.  Art published to their majesties the King and Queen.  Printed in Saxony by Appointment.  Lightly embossed, the words are only embossed.  

My Heart is all for you... dated 1910.  

This card, 'Affections Offering' is lightly embossed.  The forest scene with a basket of forget-me-not flowers and birds is framed by a heart.  Raphael Tuck and Sons 'Valentine Post Card Series no. 10 Love Missives'.  No date.

'Loving Greetings' isn't blatantly a valentines card, but the hearts give it away.  Date is missing with stamp.  No other details.  Fresh and breezy card is lightly embossed.  

This embossed card was printed by the International Art Pub. Co, New York, Berlin, printed in Germany.  Postmarked 1909.

This embossed St. Patricks day card, complete with lucky shamrock and horse shoe.  Gold leafing adorns all of the gold areas.  

This embossed Thanksgiving card shows the American tradition of turkey dinners...  Postmarked 1910.  

An acorn peeled away reveals a turkey in harvest season on a homestead.  The outer ground features foods of nature.  This embossed card wishes 'A Joyful Thanksgiving to you.'  Postmarked 1911.

This scene shows colorful leaves changing color for the fall season.  'When the Leaves Begin to Turn' is postmarked December 1909.

This embossed card features a turkey holding the knife used to carve it!

Vintage New Year's Postcards from Pennsylvania

Most of these New Year's cards feature babies-- the new year coming in.   All are from the 1910's and were sent to Carrie Bloss Lynde in Sheffield, Pennsylvania.

This card is the exception-- it's all about having a prosperous New Year!  Embossed card is postmarked Jan 1909.  Printed in Germany.

This baby sitting on the world is dated 1908!

A Baby Cupid rings in the New Year in this Postmarked 1910 embossed card.  Printed in Germany series 781.

A very Christmas'y card with a winter scene celebrates the New Year December 1911.  J M. New York, printed in Germany.  A cool crackle pattern appears on the image from age.

Kissing the New Year in 1909, embossed.

A frozen winter scene and bell tower, embossed.  New Years series no. 21, copyright E. Nash 1910.

May Happy Returns shows an icy winter scene.. no date.  Light embossing only around the oval.  Series 104.

This badly damaged embossed card features a puti bearing a banner wishing you 'A Happy New Year.'  Bells in the corners proclaim the New Year.  Dated January 1910.

'January 1, Best New Year Wishes' illustrates the coldness of winter, a rare bird and embossed holly berries.  Printed by the International Art Company, New York.

Good luck is implied with this 4-leaf clover 'New Year Greetings' postcard.  Heavily embossed, it was printed by A. S. Meeker and Co copyright 1910.  

A warmly-dressed trumpetess proclaims the new year as the sun rises on a snowy scene.  'To Wish You a Happy New Year!'  Postmarked January 1912, this embossed card was published by L & E.