Merry Christmas 1939 and a Happy New Year 1940 to ye from the Marins – Antique Print
(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
Merry Christmas 1939 and a Happy New Year 1940 to ye from the Marins comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Merry Christmas 1939 and a Happy New Year 1940 to ye from the Marins
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Rather than a scene of snow or a church, this card is a hand-colored etching made as a personal greeting from one family, the Marins, who signed it "to ye" with their season's wishes for 1939 and 1940. Its quaint phrasing and the handwork of coloring set it apart from mass-printed holiday cards of the period. Etched cards like this were a small craft form in the 1930s, when families sometimes commissioned or made their own greetings rather than buying them from a shop. The card sits in the Library of Congress's collection of Christmas cards from 1930 to 1940, which preserves a record of how ordinary households marked the holidays during the Depression years.
| Created / published | 1939 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Christmas cards 1930-1940.Etchings Hand-colored 1930-1940. |
| Subjects | Families--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,461 × 1,167 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215955 |
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