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UNICEF was the first charity to produce and sell cards for the purpose of raising funds. [12] The very first UNICEF card was a Christmas card created in 1949. The card was a reproduction of a painting, sent as a thank you to UNICEF in 1947, by seven-year-old Jitka Samkova.
Christmas card with holly Jacques Hnizdovsky Christmas card. During the first 70 years of the 19th century it was common for Christmas and other greeting cards to be recycled by women's service organizations who collected them and removed the pictures, to be pasted into scrap books for the entertainment of children in hospitals, orphanages ...
As a Glasgow city councillor, she organised the first charity Christmas card sales in the UK. As a member of the council's arts committee, she was instrumental in providing funding for the first films made by Bill Forsyth, who went on to direct major UK and Hollywood films including Local Hero. [6]
First Minister John Swinney welcomed children to his official residence as he unveiled his Christmas card, which will raise cash to help a leading children’s charity. Mr Swinney’s card ...
The Christmas Seal and Charity Stamp Society. The Christmas Seal Catalog is a simplified version of Green's Catalog of TB Seals of the World, part 1, U.S. National Christmas Seals. Denune, John. "US Christmas Seals Tied On". John Denune's ChristmasSeals.net; Denune, John Jr. "(Christmas Seal) Bonds". ChristmasSeals.net
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Nov. 23—The Christmas Bureau is back for its 78th year, and teams of volunteers from across the region are getting ready to share holiday cheer to tens of thousands of people across the Inland ...
The card was accompanied by a letter. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The charity had its origins in a programme set up by Miss E. E. Steele Elliott in 1871 [ 4 ] and overseen by a church in Brighton , which aimed to send Christmas cards to all patients in the county of Sussex . [ 1 ]