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Rabbits driving a red car loaded with Easter eggs – Antique Print

Rabbits driving a red car loaded with Easter eggs — historic image
Rabbits driving a red car loaded with Easter eggs. Historic image from the Easter collection.

(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 Rabbits driving a red car loaded with Easter eggs in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Rabbits driving a red car loaded with Easter eggs

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Anthropomorphic rabbits piloting a red automobile heaped with Easter eggs make for a whimsical scene, the kind of cheerful novelty that Easter illustrators favored from the late 1800s into the early 1900s. Postcards and magazine covers of that era often showed rabbits doing human jobs, from delivering eggs to hosting parties, reflecting a broader enthusiasm for playful animal characters in popular art. The egg-laden car taps into the idea of the Easter Bunny as a traveling gift-bringer, a figure who by then had become a familiar part of American holiday custom. Notice how the bright red vehicle sets against the pastel tones typical of holiday art.

Original scan612 × 967 px
ReferenceEaster (97)

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