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Easter Greetings postcard with rabbit and basket of eggs – Antique Print

Easter Greetings postcard with rabbit and basket of eggs — vintage postcard
Easter Greetings postcard with rabbit and basket of eggs. Vintage postcard from the Easter collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Easter Greetings postcard with rabbit and basket of eggs comes to life in this vintage postcard, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.

Easter Greetings postcard with rabbit and basket of eggs

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Few Easter postcards from the early twentieth century rely on a rabbit as the central figure, but this one puts a fluffy hare beside a basket heaped with painted eggs, a pairing that became a popular visual shorthand for the holiday. Cards of this kind were mass-produced and mailed as greetings, often with brief handwritten notes, so they capture how ordinary households marked the season. Look closely at the bright colors and decorative borders, which show the lithographic printing methods that made such cards affordable and widely circulated.

Original scan515 × 813 px
ReferenceEaster (319)

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