No. 3 of 15 · Vintage Postcards
Angel and Candles
Pictures by Artist unknown
A golden-haired angel with gilded wings lights the candles on a snowy Christmas tree in this embossed 1908 postcard by an unknown artist, wishing "A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year." It comes from the golden age of the postcard, when Americans mailed hundreds of millions of picture postcards every year. For anyone you want to wish a merry Christmas the old-fashioned way.
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A postcard, 1908 / Artist unknown · Embossed chromolithograph / Around 1905–1915 Americans mailed hundreds of millions of picture postcards a year: the golden age of the postcard. These holiday cards come from that time, kept today in the Newberry Library's Curt Teich archive.
