New Year

"Happy New Year. Gussie Stevens."

"A Happy New Year. 1881. 1880. Enenea R. Stead, Jan. 1st, 1900." Although originally intended as a New Year greeting in 1881, Enenea R. Stead (if that's the correct name) evidently used this calling card nineteen years later on January 1, 1900.

"A Happy New Year to the scholars of Princeton Church Sabbath School." The Princeton Presbyterian Church of Springfield, Pennsylvania, was located in Philadelphia during the nineteenth-century when this New Year greeting was given to the children who attended the church's Sunday school.

"I pray the New Year be full of delight for thee." See below for the reverse of this Victorian-era advertising trade card:

"An elegant assortment of Christmas and New Year's cards, dry goods in an abundance. W. D. M. Smith. C. E. Morrell, 17 Warren St., N.Y." See below for the front of this Victorian-era advertising trade card:

"Lebanon Daily News-Times and I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Your newspaper boy, Harold E. Bressler."

Rev. B. L. C. Baer was the pastor of the Highspire Church of God in Highspire, Pa. New Year Greeting, 1912 Being deprived the privilege of coming into your home I still herewith extend to you the greetings of the season. My good wishes for your happiness and success are not limited to a day or a week--they continue throughout the year; but at this joyous Christmas and New Year season I gladly renew and emphasize my good wishes, and as I count my blessings I find your good will among those most highly prized. B. L. C. Baer, Highspire, Pa.

"Viel Glück zum neuen Jahre." (Good luck for the New Year.)

"Wishing you a happy New Year." A Victorian-era greeting for the New Year.

Second of two in a series of two or more photos that tell a story (number them, if appropriate) for the Vintage Photos Theme Park. Handwritten note on the back of this real photo postcard: "Naples, January 1, 1962." Janet, Kit, and George Buck pose with two Santa Clauses in Naples, Italy, on New Year's Day in 1962. These two Santas, with their masks, slightly different clothing, and one holding a cane, seem to me to be rather mismatched and maybe even a bit creepy, but Kit is smiling broadly and looks happy. Janet and Kit previously had their picture taken with a giant Santa in Athens, Greece , on or before December 30, 1961. Based on the note that Janet wrote on the back of that first photo , the family was continuing to travel and expected to arrive in Germany by January 6, 1962. These two photos provide a glimpse into what must have been a busy and fun-filled European trip.

A real photo postcard with a CYKO stamp box on the back that suggests a date between the 1900s and 1920s. The fellow in the photo doesn't seem to be too happy about the New Year.

For more information, see the full version of this real photo postcard.

"Viel Glück im neuen Jahre." "Good luck in the New Year" is the message on this early twentieth-century German postcard featuring a snail chauffeur with two mushroom passengers.

An early twentieth-century postcard depicting a couple aloft in an airship as they celebrate the new year by scattering gold coins and red hearts across the countryside.

"Remember when I called you mine in 1909." A 1909 postcard with a rhymed New Year's greeting. It looks like those are light bulbs forming "1909," judging by the yellow glow and golden rays emanating from each of the numbers. For a similar card in which the artist used flowers instead of light bulbs, see I'll Be Yours If You'll Be Mine in 1909 .

"Remember when I called you mine in 1909." A 1909 postcard with a rhymed New Year's greeting. It looks like those are light bulbs forming "1909," judging by the yellow glow and golden rays emanating from each of the numbers. For a similar card in which the artist used flowers instead of light bulbs, see I'll Be Yours If You'll Be Mine in 1909 .

"1910. A Happy New Year." A gold and purple New Year's postcard from 1910.

"Happy New Year — 1911 — from the Morgans." A real photo postcard greeting from the Morgan family, location unknown.