Easter Greeting postcard with cherub and bell – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage postcard of Easter Greeting postcard with cherub and bell. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Easter Greeting postcard with cherub and bell
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A cherub hauling a bell rope is the detail that sets this card apart from the usual Easter fare of eggs and chicks. Postcards like this were popular in the early twentieth century, when printers turned out holiday greetings in large runs and people mailed them to relatives and friends to mark the season. Bells carried a strong symbolic meaning at Easter, often linked to the announcement of the resurrection and the end of Lent, so the image pairs a joyful holiday message with a sacred sound. Worth noticing are the soft colors and decorative border, typical of the lithographed cards that were common at the time.
| Original scan | 523 × 816 px |
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| Reference | Easter (220) |
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