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New Year's card, depicting white Christmas roses and holly, 1876

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Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1876

Location Note

Ephemera: Greeting Cards: New Year

GUSN

GUSN-195374

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Description

This New Year greeting card features a spray of white Christmas roses and holly on its cover. The inscription reads: "Happy New Year!"

Details

Descriptive Terms

chromolithography
New Year's Day
New Year cards
greeting cards

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000509
AccessID 716
Other identifier HNEDID-000509

Physical Description

1 greeting card

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.05.TMP.007

Date Notes

Copyright date: 1876.

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

L. Prang & Co. (publisher)

Material Type

New Year cards
greeting cards

Other People

Prang, Louis, 1824-1909

Subjects

American holly
Christmas rose

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Ephemera: Greeting Cards: New Year

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