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printing techniques improved during the 1860s.
An article in an 1885 edition of Home Chat describes the cards sent by America’s first lady, the wife of President Cleveland, as “peculiarly interesting, inasmuch as they are all of more or less Puritan nature or time, and are unequaled for chaste simplicity and good taste.”
At the same time, says Home Chat, England’s Queen Victoria was sparing no expense with the “thousands’ of greetings she sent out to royal relatives and “neighbours.” The queen’s cards were 10 by 8 inches in size and depicted a lavish Nativity scene.
During World War I, Americans sent kisses at Christmastime. Cards decorated with patriotic stars and stripes had a special gum-coated
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