Greeting cards

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Collection Type

Ephemera

GUSN

GUSN-181209

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Ephemera collection
Greeting cards
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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
- Color advertisements
- Calling cards
- Rewards of merit
- Greeting cards (current record)
  - Temporary
- Menus
- Pamphlets
- Playing cards
- Programs
- Sheet music
- Tickets and cards of admission
- Product catalogues
- Calendar collection
- Cookbooks
- Ephemera Collection - Oversize
- Bookplates
- Temporary

Description

This series includes early examples of Christmas, Easter, birthday, and Valentine's Day greeting cards. Many of them were produced by the company of Louis Prang, a leader in the greeting card publishing business and the printing industry.

Details

Descriptive Terms

holidays
Thanksgiving
Independence Day
greeting cards
Christmas cards
birthday cards
valentines
New Year cards
Easter cards

Physical Description

ca. 10 boxes

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.05

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Prang, Louis, 1824-1909 (Printer)
L. Prang & Co. (Publisher)

Material Type

greeting cards
Christmas cards
birthday cards
valentines
New Year cards
Easter cards

Description Level

Series

Related Items

Jewett family papers

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