Greeting Cards

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Comment by Lee Kirk on January 11, 2013 at 8:50pm

Prang certainly illustrated many kinds of materials, but usually his colors are stronger - intense chromolithographs. But I couldn't say for sure that this isn't Prang. Looks more like a German production perhaps. You might like a book titled American Christmas Cards 1900-1960, by Kenneth L. Ames. It looks critically at Christmas cards from a social-cultural standpoint.

Comment by Jeff on July 25, 2011 at 4:31pm

One of the oldest American Christmas cards in my collection is this unknown maker that I found in an album dated 1876. I know that Louis Prang was an early pioneer of lithographed Christmas cards starting his business in 1875 manufacturing the first mass-produced Christmas cards made in America.

Is anyone here familiar with Louis Prang's cards?