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Happy Birthday Labels – Antique Wall Art

Happy Birthday Labels — historic image
Happy Birthday Labels. Historic image from the Religious collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Happy Birthday Labels, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Happy Birthday Labels

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Here the sentiment is a birthday wish, but the imagery leans toward the winged and the otherworldly, which is what places it among the angels and fairies on this board. Small printed labels like this were a popular form of greeting in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when color lithography made affordable decorative paper cheap to produce. They were pasted into albums, tucked into letters, or attached to gifts, so a single label could carry a personal message as well as a decorative design. The mix of celebration and sentiment reflects how Victorian and Edwardian families marked personal milestones with keepsakes.

Original scan600 × 800 px
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