Children with firecrackers, July 4th greeting card – Vintage Print
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Children with firecrackers, July 4th greeting card comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Children with firecrackers, July 4th greeting card
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Two children stand close together, one holding a string of firecrackers, in a card that was made to be sent for the Fourth of July. Greeting cards like this were a popular way to mark national holidays in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when mass-produced printing made colorful sentiment cheap enough for ordinary families to mail to relatives. Cards of this kind often paired patriotic symbols with cheerful scenes of childhood, and the firecracker here points to the noisy street celebrations that marked Independence Day. Holiday postcards like it reveal how Americans wanted to picture their national day: lively, sentimental, and full of young faces.
| Original scan | 516 × 816 px |
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| Reference | Patriotic (93) |
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