A Merry Christmas postcard with Santa and sled – 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 with Santa and sled. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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A Merry Christmas postcard with Santa and sled
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A Merry Christmas postcard built around Santa Claus and a sled, a pairing that became a staple of holiday imagery in the decades around 1900. Early twentieth-century greeting cards like this one were mass-produced in large numbers and mailed across the country, often sent as cheap, colorful notes between relatives and friends. Santa's sled, drawn from the sleigh-and-reindeer tradition popularized by the 1823 poem often called "A Visit from St. Nicholas," helped fix his image in American homes. Cards such as this show how the jolly, round-bellied Santa was being shaped for a mass audience in that era.
| Original scan | 1,494 × 2,312 px · prints to 5 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | santapinkrobe |
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