New Year's card, depicting a young girl holding an umbrella in a snowstorm, 1888

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Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1888

Location Note

Ephemera: Greeting Cards: New Year

GUSN

GUSN-195373

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Description

This New Year greeting card depicts a young girl trudging through a snowstorm underneath a large umbrella on its cover. The inscription reads: "Happy New Year! It's I, of course! I knew you'd guess. You couldn't help but know. Who else would come to wish you joy in such a driving snow?"

Details

Descriptive Terms

umbrellas
chromolithography
snowstorms
New Year's Day
New Year cards
greeting cards

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000508
AccessID 715
Other identifier HNEDID-000508

Physical Descrption

1 greeting card

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.05.TMP.006

Date Notes

Copyright date: 1888.

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

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Ephemera: Greeting Cards: New Year

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