{"id":365,"date":"2015-12-12T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/12\/the-history-of-the-christmas-greeting-card-2\/"},"modified":"2015-12-12T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T21:02:00","slug":"the-history-of-the-christmas-greeting-card-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/the-history-of-the-christmas-greeting-card-2.html","title":{"rendered":"The History of the Christmas Greeting Card"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nHoliday Cards<\/div>\n
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\nAlthough we have had a few cold days, this is the first real
\ntaste of winter here in Santa Fe and I am writing a few greeting cards to mail
\n.  Years ago, I sent out many more
\nholiday cards, perhaps email has made a difference in my habits. Nevertheless,
\nI still like to select meaningful greetings to those friends and relatives we
\nare not able to visit as often as we would wish. <\/div>\n
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\nThe history of sending printed holiday greetings tells of
\nSir Henry Cole, a Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.  In 
\nMay, 1843, Cole commissioned his friend, John Callcott Horsley, a former
\npupil of the National Academy known for his illustrations to produce a
\nChristmas greeting card in an initial edition of 1,000.  The card was produced on cardboard and
\nmeasured 5 1\/8inches x 3 \u00bc inches and was a handpainted triptych    The images depicted were of a family
\nraising glasses of wine in a toast with side scenes of charity giving for the
\npoor.  The greeting read \u201cA Merry
\nChristmas and a Happy New Year to You\u201d. 
\nSubsequently, an additional edition was printed, the cards selling for 1
\nshilling each.  This was an essentially
\nprovidential market ploy for Cole as he had helped introduce the first postage
\nstamp (Penny Post) three years earlier.<\/div>\n
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\nThe first printed cards available in America were available
\nfrom the lithograph firm of Prang and Mayer in 1847.  The first American president and first lady to send White House
\ncards during the Christmas season was Calvin Coolidge in 1927 and the first
\n\u201cofficial\u201d White House Christmas card was sent in 1953 by Dwight Eisenhower.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nThe tradition of sending cards included merchants sending
\ntheir greetings to valued customers and charity organizations soliciting
\ndonations.<\/div>\n
\nToday many card manufacturers offer free email cards.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nVintage greeting cards are easy to find. as well as many reproduction
\ncards.  In December,2013 an original
\nCole card was sold at auction for 4,200 pounds (over $6,000 dollars).<\/div>\n
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\nHere are a few cards from my collection depicting children
\ndressed for Santa.<\/div>\n
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1915 – Reproduction 1860’s – 1926<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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1918 – 1918 – 1913<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

” A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You”<\/p>\n

\n Henry Cole ( and Margy)<\/p>\n
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Holiday Cards Although we have had a few cold days, this is the first real taste of winter here in Santa Fe and I am writing a few greeting cards to mail .  Years ago, I sent out many more holiday cards, perhaps email has made a difference in my habits. Nevertheless, I still like…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}