A merry Christmas from the Websters"" – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: A merry Christmas from the Websters"", preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A merry Christmas from the Websters""
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A merry Christmas from the Websters is a small holiday greeting card, a photomechanical reproduction with hand-applied watercolor on textured board, its surface still showing the grain of the card stock. The record dates it to somewhere between 1916 and 1952, and its subject tags point to a couple, marking it as a personal season's greeting rather than a commercial design. Cards like this were mailed in large numbers during those decades, when photographic portraits could be reproduced cheaply and colored by hand to look more like a keepsake. The Websters' names are the only surviving detail, so the card is best read as a glimpse of ordinary family life at the holidays.
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photoreproduction with watercolor on textured board ; 15.1 x 11.2 cm. (sheet) |
|---|---|
| Notes | [between 1916 and 1952] |
| Subjects | Christmas--1910-1960. Spouses--1910-1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,164 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157360 |
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