Happy New Year! A look back at 40 elegant vintage postcards

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Old-fashioned New Year's postcards from Click Americana (14)

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Take a look back in time at some vintage postcards sent by people in the first two decades of the 1900s to wish friends and family a happy new year!

New Year greetings

Antique New Year's cards from Click Americana (12)

To you a Happy New Year

Antique New Year's cards from Click Americana (13)

With all my heart this glad new year

Old-fashioned New Year's postcards from Click Americana (6)

With best wishes for a bright and prosperous New Year.

Antique New Year's cards from Click Americana (1)

A happy New Year postcard with a dirigible

Antique New Year's cards from Click Americana (2)

Greeting, good luck, good cheer – and a happy new year

Antique New Year's cards from Click Americana (4)

My hearty thanks and best wishes for a happy new year

Antique New Year's cards from Click Americana (5)

Wishing you 365 happy days: Vintage postcard

Antique New Year's cards from Click Americana (6)

A Happy New Year

Antique New Year's cards from Click Americana (7)

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1911 – To wish you a happy new year

Antique New Year's cards from Click Americana (11)

A happy new year

Antique New Year's cards from Click Americana (8)

Antique New Year's cards from Click Americana (9)

Antique New Year's cards from Click Americana (10)

A happy new year – Antique card with kitten and poppies

Antique New Year's cards from Click Americana (14)

Happy new year – vintage champagne bottle

Old-fashioned New Year's postcards from Click Americana (1)

Happy new year – flowers in a dress shoe

Old-fashioned New Year's postcards from Click Americana (2)

New year greetings

Old-fashioned New Year's postcards from Click Americana (3)

Vintage postcard: Good luck horseshoes for the new year

Old-fashioned New Year's postcards from Click Americana (4)

January 1st – New Year’s Greetings – to ye future

Old-fashioned New Year's postcards from Click Americana (5)

January 1 new year wishes

Old-fashioned New Year's postcards from Click Americana (7)

A glad new year be yours

Old-fashioned New Year's postcards from Click Americana (8)

Happy new year: Antique postcard with a bird

Old-fashioned New Year's postcards from Click Americana (9)

Men yelling to the new year

Old-fashioned New Year's postcards from Click Americana (10)

Snowy old street scene with horses

Old-fashioned New Year's postcards from Click Americana (11)

Old-fashioned New Year's postcards from Click Americana (12)

Old-fashioned New Year's postcards from Click Americana (13)

Old-fashioned New Year's postcards from Click Americana (14)

May this happy new year bring rich store to heart and home

Vintage New Year's cards from Click Americana (1)

Vintage New Year's cards from Click Americana (2)

Compliments of the happy new year

Vintage New Year's cards from Click Americana (3)

Vintage New Year's cards from Click Americana (4)

Vintage New Year's cards from Click Americana (5)

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Your name is my book of memory

Antique New Year's cards from Click Americana (3)

Vintage New Year's cards from Click Americana (6)

All health and happiness during the new year

Vintage New Year's cards from Click Americana (7)

Vintage New Year's cards from Click Americana (8)

Vintage New Year's cards from Click Americana (9)

A prosperous new year be thine

Vintage New Year's cards from Click Americana (10)

A bright and happy new year

Vintage New Year's cards from Click Americana (11)

Vintage New Year's cards from Click Americana (13)

If good old customs still held true, I’d see the new year in with you!

Vintage New Year's cards from Click Americana (14)

Vintage New Year's cards from Click Americana (15)

Vintage New Year's cards from Click Americana (12)

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