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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 some non-Christians) in Western society and ...
At Christmas 1873, Prang began creating greeting cards for the popular market in England and began selling the Christmas card in America in 1874; he is sometimes called the "father of the American Christmas card." [4] Prang was an active supporter of female artists, both commissioning and collecting artworks by women.
Christmas cards are illustrated messages of greeting exchanged between friends and family members during the weeks preceding Christmas Day. The traditional greeting reads "wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year", much like that of the first commercial Christmas card, produced by Sir Henry Cole in London in 1843. [167]
And as a reminder, Christmas did not become a federal holiday until 1870. Today, we celebrate the holiday season with Christmas trees , yule logs and figgy pudding .
"O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, how lovely are thy branches"—this popular seasonal song begins by complimenting the Christmastime symbol we all automatically associate with the holiday.
Chromolithography is a method for making multi-colour prints. This type of colour printing stemmed from the process of lithography, [1] and includes all types of lithography that are printed in colour. [citation needed] When chromolithography is used to reproduce photographs, the term photochrome is frequently used.
A vintage postcard bearing a 1947 postmark, f rom the collection of L.A. Times reporter Patt Morrison, tells the story of Altadena's Christmas Tree Lane, although the dates differ from the ...
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection; the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]