Greeting Postcards

Date1907-1910

MediumPhotomechanical print; halftone printed in colored inks embossed. Lithography; colored printer's inks.

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 3 15/16 x 5 1/2in. (10 x 14cm)

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineGift of Susan Palmer

DescriptionGreeting postcards; one conveys birthday greetings and includes a drawing of a cottage, framed by violets. The other card commemorates Washington's Birthday and has the date "Feb 22" at left surrounded by a red, white & blue ribbon with flowers; a poem is printed in a box, and several children, two dressed in revolutionary era clothing, parade with a drum and horn.

Object number2003.176.4-.5

InscribedOn recto of 2003.176.4, "Birthday / Greetings / As you / Birthdays go / Be they fleet or slow, / They ever bring / kind wishes / From me, you know."

On recto of 2003.176.5, "February / 22 / Let us remember on this day / Our heritage of liberty / And may we guard with jealous / Care the land that now / And evermore shall stand / A monument to / Our Wahington".

Accession number is inscribed on verso at bottom in pencil.

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