No. 4 of 15 · Vintage Postcards
Penguins Come to Play
Pictures by Agnes Richardson
Agnes Richardson's 1918 Christmas postcard shows a red-haired girl in an orange bonnet pushing a giant snowball while three penguins stand beside it to say, "We've come to play with you," above the words Christmas Greetings. It comes from the golden age of the picture postcard, when Americans mailed hundreds of millions of them each year. For someone who loves an old-fashioned Christmas.
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A postcard, c. 1917-1920 / Around 1905-1915 Americans mailed hundreds of millions of picture postcards a year: the golden age of the postcard. These holiday cards come from that time, kept today in the Newberry Library's Curt Teich archive.
