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Cards Tell
Of Changes
The tradition of exchanging Christmas cards is a charming part of the joyous holiday, and it has a history of its own.
One of the most interesting parts of that history is the way that greeting cards serve to record changing social customs, manners and fashions through the years, points out Miss Esther Mooney, curator of the Norcross, Inc., greeting card collection.
For instance, an English card of 1892 shows the formality existing between parents \ and children during the Victorian era. Here, a little girl kneels solemnly at her mother’s knee, sedately offering her a Christmas bouquet, with the wish, “May your life be a Merry Christmas.”
Modern cards take a livelier, more light-hearted approach. Even earlier, greeting cards began to reflect an easier sort of filial relationship. Declares a 1930 card: “3 cheers 4 a Merry Christmas and you, Dad!”
FIRST CARDS SOLD
Christmas cards were first offered “to the trade” by an English publishing house in the 1860’s. They carried such designs as jolly old gentlemen (who might have been San- •
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