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An Easter Greeting embossed card with a child in a hat – Vintage Print

An Easter Greeting embossed card with a child in a hat — historic image
An Easter Greeting embossed card with a child in a hat. 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.)

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This historic image of An Easter Greeting embossed card with a child in a hat brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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An Easter Greeting embossed card with a child in a hat

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Embossed Easter cards like this one were a popular item in the early twentieth century, when color lithography and embossing made inexpensive greeting cards widely available in the United States and Europe. The card shows a child in a hat, a detail that places it among the many holiday cards of the period that favored sentimental portraits of children in spring finery. Its raised, embossed surface was meant to catch the light and give the printed image a tactile, almost sculptural quality. Such cards were often mailed or tucked into holiday letters, so surviving examples like this one offer a glimpse into how families marked the season with small, affectionate gestures.

Original scan492 × 817 px
ReferenceEaster (181)

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