Holiday Card

DateEarly 1900s

Terms

Greeting Cards
Paper

Dimensions10.16 × 6.35 cm (4 × 2 1/2 in.)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Russell Robb, Sr. (Edith Morse)

Object numberPER0107F

DescriptionCut and embossed paper "lace" card, with red and blue backing paper. Applied lithograph flowers. At cente, over blue paper is a cut out image of a bird on a branch. At the top, over red is a cut out image of two birds. At the bottom, over red, is a cut out image of a bird with a nest. Inside, text printed in red reads: "To My Friend. / I've pleastn thoughts, that memory brings/ In moments free from care. / Of a fairy-like and laughing girl, / With roses in her hiar; / Her smile was like that starlight/ Of summer's softest skies; / And worls of joyousness there shone / From out her witching eyes."

Per107: Gift of 23 Valentines.