A simple, but elegant winter scene of evergreens and a red house with snow-covered roof, at sunset, with the greeting:

“Only a message in words but few

‘Tis Merry Christmas I’m wishing you”

Addressed to:   “Miss Harriet Schoonmaker, Parksville, Sullivan Co., New York.”

The sender wrote:   “Hope to see you while I’m home. Florence G.”

Harriet is probably the Hattie Schoonmaker that shows up on the 1910 Federal Census for Liberty, NY which is about 4 and 1/2 miles south of Parksville. She is the daughter of John and Hortense Schoonmaker, and appears on the census with her parents and brother Thomas. Hattie was born in New York around 1888, so would have been about twenty-five when she received the postcard from Florence.

As to the publisher:  Huntwood Novelties of Concord, NH was presumably Woodbury E. Hunt’s company, (without knowing the possible details of who owned Huntwood Novelties, if it was a separate entity.) More about the publisher will go up in the next post.

Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked December 23, 1913 from Yonkers, New York. Publisher:  Huntwood Novelties, Concord, New Hampshire.

Price:  $8.00

Source:  “United States Census, 1910,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M57X-1RF : accessed 5 December 2015), Hattie Schoonmaker in household of John Schoonmaker, Liberty, Sullivan, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 142, sheet 6B, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,375,085.