Antique Postcard Sweeping Reward Teacher Rutherford Embossed Winter Birds Roses

Social History: This card is an incredibly charming primary source detailing life in an early 20th-century American rural or small-town schoolhouse. It was given by a schoolteacher, Ethel Rutherford, to her student Irene as a reward "for sweeping."

Scene: Heavily Embossed Die-Cut Lithograph with an intricate faux-lace border and textured background pattern with vibrant spring roses and forget-me-nots along a decorative lace frame with a central vignette of songbirds huddled on a snow-covered evergreen branch.