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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 ...
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A 1907 Christmas card with Santa and some of his reindeer 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 ...
The first U.S. Christmas seal of 1907 was initially sold on December 7, 1907 in Wilmington, Delaware by the Delaware Chapter of the American Red Cross, at a penny each. By 1908, Bissell's idea grew to a national program administered by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis (NASPT) Christmas seals issued from 1908 ...
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Mary Jane "Jennie" Bain Wilson was born on a farm in Cleveland, Indiana in 1856, [1] the younger daughter of Robert Wilson and Mary Frances Russell Wilson. [2] She survived typhoid fever as a little girl, but her spine was damaged by the bacterial infection ("typhoid spine" was first described in the medical literature many years later). [3]
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]