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A 19th-century American Christmas card. A Christmas card is a greeting card sent as part of the traditional celebration of Christmas in order to convey between people a range of sentiments related to Christmastide and the holiday season. Christmas cards are usually exchanged during the weeks preceding Christmas Day by many people (including ...
The success of the Christmas card grew into a business letters, postcards, and greeting cards with envelopes. [1] Rust revolutionized the use of the "French Fold," which turned a single piece of paper into a card by folding it into quarters. [1] [2] They were the first company to sell greeting cards with a fitted envelope. [3]
The film shows Christmas 1940, in the middle of the Blitz.Christmas traditions are depicted in juxtaposition with a wartime backdrop: Christmas trees are dug up for air raid shelters; housewives buy food for the Christmas dinner; theatres stage pantomime productions; schoolchildren produce handmade Christmas cards.
The world's first Christmas seal. Christmas seals are adhesive labels that are similar in appearance to postage stamps that are sold then affixed to mail during the Christmas season to raise funds and awareness for charitable programs. Christmas seals have become particularly associated with lung diseases such as tuberculosis, and with child ...
Lynching of Willie James Howard. Willie James Howard (July 13, 1928 – January 2, 1944) was a 15-year-old African-American living in Live Oak, Suwannee County, Florida. He was drowned for having given Christmas cards to all his co-workers at the Van Priest Dime Store, including Cynthia Goff, a white girl, followed by a letter to her on New ...
Holidays, particularly Halloween, Valentine's Day, and Christmas, are a common theme in her work. [citation needed] One of her 1910 card designs, Midnight Angel, was chosen by the United States Postal Service for the 1995 traditional Christmas Stamp. [10] Clapsaddle's artwork still appears today in prints and commercial art.