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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 ...
The world's first Christmas card. In 1843 Horsley designed the first ever Christmas card, commissioned by Henry Cole. It caused some controversy because it depicted a small child drinking wine. He also designed the Horsley envelope, a pre-paid envelope that was the precursor to the postage stamp.
A Christmas stamp is a postage stamp with a Christmas theme, intended for use on seasonal mail such as Christmas cards. Many countries issue such stamps, which are regular postage stamps (in contrast to Christmas seals ) and are usually valid for postage year-round (in some countries they have a discounted value and are for use exclusively on ...
The idea of Christmas celebrations didn't take until the mid-1800s and the first Christmas card was commissioned only in 1843. As exchanging cards grew more popular, Victorians sought designs to ...
Humbug!” reflex and vows “to honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” "A Christmas Carol" was published 180 years ago this year, on Dec. 19, 1843, and sold all 6,000 ...
Under an act passed by the U.S. Congress on February 27, 1861, privately printed cards (which weighed one ounce or less) were allowed to be sent by mail. [7] John P. Charlton copyrighted the first postcard in America that same year. [7] The rights to this card were later sold to Hymen L. Lipman, who began reissuing the cards under his name in ...
Like this poignant wartime Christmas card from the then Princess Elizabeth, sent in 1942. There's the tilt of the cap, the young face, looking into an unknown future.
Scrap character card of Richard III produced by Siegmund Hildesheimer. Siegmund Hildesheimer (1832–1896) was a German-born British publisher, best known for Christmas and other greetings cards, and postcards, produced by Siegmund Hildesheimer & Co Ltd, in London and Manchester.