Easter greeting card with snowdrops, violets and a golden egg – Historic Print
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Easter greeting card with snowdrops, violets and a golden egg comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Easter greeting card with snowdrops, violets and a golden egg
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Snowdrops and violets crowd the front of this Easter greeting card, with a golden egg set among them as the central motif. Cards like this were popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when printed greetings were becoming affordable for ordinary households and spring flowers stood in for the season's themes of renewal. Snowdrops, among the first blooms to push through winter, carried associations with hope, while violets suggested modesty and quiet devotion. The gilt egg adds a note of celebration, and the pairing of flowers and egg shows how Easter imagery leaned on the natural calendar as much as on religious symbolism.
| Original scan | 513 × 818 px |
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| Reference | Easter (313) |
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