A Merry Christmas postcard: girl and man with tree and parcels – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this vintage postcard of A Merry Christmas postcard: girl and man with tree and parcels. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
A Merry Christmas postcard: girl and man with tree and parcels
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
A Merry Christmas postcard showing a girl and a man posed beside a decorated tree with wrapped parcels gathered at their feet, a scene that captures the domestic side of the holiday rather than its religious or public faces. Postcards like this one were produced in large numbers around the turn of the twentieth century, when sending seasonal greetings by mail had become a popular custom and printers turned out lithographed cards with sentimental scenes. Its staged, cozy composition reflects the era's ideal of the family gathered around the tree, and the brightly tinted color often seen on such cards is worth noticing as a sign of how these images were printed and sold.
| Original scan | 503 × 800 px |
|---|---|
| Reference | 100 (144) |
More from the Christmas collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
