American Christmas cards, 1900-1960 /
Christmas cards have been called 'little messengers of good will,' but that charming description oversimplifies these complicated artifacts, which were once central features of an almost compulsory seasonal ritual of exchange in the United States. These small bits of paper or cardstock fea...
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[New York] : New Haven, Connecticut :
Bard Graduate Center, Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture ; Distributed by Yale University Press,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Christmas cards in America
- Cards of the nineteenth century
- Christmas postcards
- Calling cards
- Shrines
- Winter
- Candles
- Poinsettias
- Three kings
- Travel by coach
- Ships
- Medieval revels
- Houses and homes
- Hearths
- Music
- Couples
- Visiting
- Santa and the children
- Christmas trees
- Christian Christmas
- Churches
- Family photographs
- Warm places
- Cute
- Humor
- Business.