On View
Not on viewHoliday Card
DateLate 1800s
Terms
- Greeting Cards
- Cardstock
- United States
Dimensions9.52 × 4.44 cm (3 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.)
MarkingsPoem printed on the verso: "[indistinct] leisure , / Youth and pleasure, / Furnish treasure / Child to thee - / Don't refuse them, / nor abuse them, / Only use them / Faithfully. / For fairy bowers / and birds and flowers / And Christmas hours / All may be - / an Alphabe / Oh dearest pet..."
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Russell Robb, Sr.
Object numberPER1114.0002AF
DescriptionA color lithograph Christmas card. The card features an image of a girl wearing a red plaid dress and white smock, feeding birds. Text along the lower edge reads: "A Happy Christmas." On the verso is printed a poem "[indistinct] leisure , / Youth and pleasure, / Furnish treasure / Child to thee - / Don't refuse them, / nor abuse them, / Only use them / Faithfully. / For fairy bowers / and birds and flowers / And Christmas hours / All may be - / an Alphabe / Oh dearest pet..."