10 Spectacular Vintage Holiday Cards

c1905. Sent to us by Barbara Becker. "Christmas post card 2 would have been given to my grandmother when she lived in Edinburgh, Scotland (1904-1909). Teanie was a nickname my mother told me my grandmother did not particularly like. This card appears to have been hand delivered."

c1913. This card was sent in by Ilene Terry. "The card was purchased in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by my great-aunt Nance and sent to my mother in Alberta, Canada. It is postmarked December 22, 1913."

c1907. Sent in by Barbara Becker. "This Christmas post card was sent to my grandmother on December 22, 1907, when she was probably visiting Armadale, Alva. She had family in the north of Scotland, but at that time was living in Edinburgh. I don’t know who J. Melville might have been."

c1909. This card was sent in by Dale Dailey. "My oldest Christmas card is actually a postcard from a collection of my paternal grandmother. It is beautiful card with rich colors and deep embossing from around 1909."

c1910. Sent to us by Phyllis OShea. "This watercolor card was sent to my grandmother Kate Collins Boot (born 1858, Maiden Lane ,Covent Garden) and grandfather Francis John Boot (born 1853, Finchley, Barnet, Middlesex) from Kate’s sister, Mary (born 1854, Maiden Lane) and her husband John Halifax, (born 1854, Knightbridge)."

c1915. Sent to us by Garry McWells. "This card was sent by David W. Canady to Lizzie Mae Reynolds (my paternal grandparents) about a year before they married. David was in the Army, stationed at Ft. William F. Seward Supply Depot. The card is postmarked December 17, 1915, in Haines Alaska. David was from Bernie, Missouri, and Lizzie was from Stigler, Oklahoma. Note how brief the address is, yet it arrived at its intended destination."

c1930. This card was sent by Angella Rodgers. "My grandma treasured all of the cards that she received in 1930. This one was from her aunt and uncle. I keep them now as part of my family tree materials. My grandmother was living at Two Gates, near Tamworth, and her Aunt was in Ansley, Warwickshire. Grandma kept in touch with many of her relatives, far and near."

c1930. These cards were sent by James Kuemin. "These belonged to my great-grandmother Jane Elizabeth Dearwood Kuemin, probably in 1929, prior to her death in early 1930. Her parents were both French Canadians who came to Michigan after they married. Jane’s husband Joseph Conrad Kuemin II (Kumin) came to America from Switzerland. He died in 1927. They lived on a farm on top of a hill on Hilltop road a few miles south of Suttons Bay. The house overlooks Grand Traverse Bay. They had nine children, six girls and three boys."

c1897. Sent in by Gawie van Dyk. "This card was given to my grandmother, Cornelia Johanna Elizabeth Smuts, in 1897, when she was 22. By pulling on its ends, it opens up into a 3D structure which can stand upright. On its reverse side the following words were handwritten: 'From H.J. van der Merwe To Miss C.J. Smuts Trust in God for ever.' The message printed (also on the reverse) reads as follows: 'Mistletoe and holly berry, Loving words and laughter merry, Tell that Yule is here once more. With his kind hands overflowing With the best of all that’s going, May he enter at your door. H M Burnside.' The person who gave the card to my grandmother was probably her friend but he was not my grandfather. In about 1899 or 1900 she married Jurgen Jacobus de Jongh."

c1949. Sent in by June Beven. "My brother's Christmas card sent home from the Korean War."