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- Hallmark "Down-to-Earth Angels Collection: Aunt Angel" Christmas Ornament, 2008 - Already known for greeting cards, Hallmark introduced a line of Christmas ornaments in 1973. The company's annual release of an increasing array of ornaments revolutionized Christmas decorating, appealing to customers' interest in marking memories and milestones as well as expressing one's personality and unique tastes.
- 2008
- Collections - Artifact
Hallmark "Down-to-Earth Angels Collection: Aunt Angel" Christmas Ornament, 2008
Already known for greeting cards, Hallmark introduced a line of Christmas ornaments in 1973. The company's annual release of an increasing array of ornaments revolutionized Christmas decorating, appealing to customers' interest in marking memories and milestones as well as expressing one's personality and unique tastes.
- Sawtooth Star Quilt, circa 1840 -
- circa 1840
- Collections - Artifact
Sawtooth Star Quilt, circa 1840
- "With Many Kind Thoughts and Every Good Wish for Christmas and the New Year" - Mailing colorful, commercially designed greeting cards was a 20th-century American tradition. During the holidays, friends and neighbors commonly exchanged cards wishing the recipient a Merry Christmas or Happy New Year. This card contains typical holiday symbols: candles, holly, and a winter scene. The snow-covered house perhaps represents an idealized home familiar to all seeking a quiet respite during the busy holiday season.
- Collections - Artifact
"With Many Kind Thoughts and Every Good Wish for Christmas and the New Year"
Mailing colorful, commercially designed greeting cards was a 20th-century American tradition. During the holidays, friends and neighbors commonly exchanged cards wishing the recipient a Merry Christmas or Happy New Year. This card contains typical holiday symbols: candles, holly, and a winter scene. The snow-covered house perhaps represents an idealized home familiar to all seeking a quiet respite during the busy holiday season.
- Trade Card for Red-Top Flour, Aunt Jemima Mills Company, 1914-1926 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- 1914-1926
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Red-Top Flour, Aunt Jemima Mills Company, 1914-1926
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.