Vintage St. Patrick's Day Greeting Card, Early 1900s Irish Woman

The relationship between this woman and the calendar is oddly intense—she's dressed head-to-toe in green with a jaunty white bonnet and apron, one finger raised to a framed calendar announcement like she's personally responsible for inventing March 17th. The sentiment 'Fond Hearts Cherish The Love For Green Erin' spirals down the right side in increasingly shamrock-infested script, because apparently prose alone couldn't contain the nationalism. Hartley Co. of New York has committed fully to the bit: shamrocks in the corners, shamrocks climbing the frame, shamrocks basically *breathing*—a maximalist shamrock agenda that makes the woman's calm, profile-posed composure feel almost unhinged by contrast.