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

1900s, 1910s, Letters & postcards, Vintage New Year

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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

To you a Happy New Year

With all my heart this glad new year

With best wishes for a bright and prosperous New Year.

A happy New Year postcard with a dirigible

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

My hearty thanks and best wishes for a happy new year

Wishing you 365 happy days: Vintage postcard

A Happy New Year

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1911 – To wish you a happy new year

A happy new year

A happy new year – Antique card with kitten and poppies

Happy new year – vintage champagne bottle

Happy new year – flowers in a dress shoe

New year greetings

Vintage postcard: Good luck horseshoes for the new year

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

January 1 new year wishes

A glad new year be yours

Happy new year: Antique postcard with a bird

Men yelling to the new year

Snowy old street scene with horses

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

Compliments of the happy new year

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Your name is my book of memory

All health and happiness during the new year

A prosperous new year be thine

A bright and happy new year

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

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