A Merry Christmas greeting card with Santa Claus – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures A Merry Christmas greeting card with Santa Claus in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
A Merry Christmas greeting card with Santa Claus
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Santa Claus is the figure at the center of this greeting card, a detail that ties it to the rise of the jolly, red-suited gift-giver in American and British Christmas imagery during the late 1800s. Holiday cards became popular in the 1870s and 1880s, when printers could produce colorful chromolithographs cheaply and sending a card was a simple way to wish friends and family well. Cards like this one typically combined a festive scene with a short seasonal message, and they were often kept in scrapbooks or tucked into albums long after the holiday had passed. Looking closely, you can see how Santa's image was still settling into its familiar form at the time.
| Original scan | 1,575 × 2,400 px · prints to 5 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 100 (386) |
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