Victorian Easter greeting card with two chickens – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Victorian Easter greeting card with two chickens in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Victorian Easter greeting card with two chickens
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Two chickens take center stage on this Victorian Easter greeting card, a small sentimental piece of the kind sent between friends and relatives in the later 1800s. Easter cards of this era often paired birds, eggs, and spring flowers to signal renewal after winter, and the chicken was a familiar farmyard emblem of home and hearth. Cards like this were typically printed in color with embossed or lace-like borders, and many were kept in albums or scrapbooks rather than thrown away. Look closely at the birds and the decorative edging, which show how commercial printers of the period mixed rural imagery with the growing taste for ornament.
| Original scan | 516 × 818 px |
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| Reference | Easter (322) |
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