Christmas Postcard, "With Best Christmas Wishes," 1910
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Mailing colorful, commercially designed greeting cards had become an American tradition by the 1920s and 1930s. Friends and neighbors commonly exchanged cards that wished one another a merry Christmas or happy New Year during the winter holidays. Publishers sometimes decorated these cards with nostalgic images of mills, churches, or covered bridges steeped in snow.
Mailing colorful, commercially designed greeting cards had become an American tradition by the 1920s and 1930s. Friends and neighbors commonly exchanged cards that wished one another a merry Christmas or happy New Year during the winter holidays. Publishers sometimes decorated these cards with nostalgic images of mills, churches, or covered bridges steeped in snow.
Artifact
Postcard
Subject Date
24 December 1910
Creators
Unknown
Keywords
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
89.0.540.245
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Printing (Process)
Color
Multicolored
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