Angel with cross and pink roses, A Happy Easter – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Angel with cross and pink roses, A Happy Easter, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Angel with cross and pink roses, A Happy Easter
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Easter postcards like this one, with an angel holding a cross beside a bouquet of pink roses and the greeting "A Happy Easter," belonged to a long tradition of illustrated holiday cards that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Printers produced them in large numbers, often in chromolithography, so that families could send cheerful wishes by mail to relatives and friends. The pairing of an angel with a cross recalls the resurrection story, where angels announce that Christ has risen, while the roses add a note of spring renewal that suited the season. Cards of this kind are worth noticing for their soft colors and their role in everyday devotional and social life.
| Original scan | 523 × 810 px |
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| Reference | Easter (236) |
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