D.M. Ferry Seed Annual 1908 — Vintage Pansies Postcard

A colorful bed of pansies — purple, yellow, red, and white — fills the foreground of this 1908 seed catalog cover, with Detroit's domed Horticultural Building at Belle Isle Park rising beyond a stand of shade trees. Published by D.M. Ferry & Co., Seedsmen, it's a piece of early-20th-century advertising art as much as a garden scene.

A striking find for anyone collecting vintage botanical ephemera or building a postcrossing set around old seed-catalog and magazine graphics.

• 10×15 cm
• 350 g/m² cardstock