Easter greeting postcard with chicks hatching from an egg – Historic Print
(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: Easter greeting postcard with chicks hatching from an egg, preserved in this vintage postcard. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Easter greeting postcard with chicks hatching from an egg
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Chicks breaking out of a large painted egg make this postcard stand apart from the bunnies and lilies that fill most Easter cards of its era. Holiday postcards like this one were printed in huge numbers in the early 1900s, when the picture postcard was the cheapest way to send a short greeting, and senders often chose a card whose image matched the season. The hatching chick works as a visual pun on new life, a theme that fit Easter's message of renewal and was easy for any sender to understand at a glance. Look at the lettering and border as well, since they show how printers of the period combined color lithography with decorative type to make a card that sold well.
| Original scan | 529 × 829 px |
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| Reference | Easter (137) |
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