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Evolution of Christmas Cards From 1843 to Space Age
The piece traces how Christmas cards began in 1843 with John Calcott Horsley and evolved to reflect social manners, fashions, and events. It highlights Norcross Inc collections, Victorian family imagery, and shifts to later eras showing car innovation, television, Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, and wartime patriotism.
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John Calcott Horsley
London
Horsley
Norcross, Inc
Esther Mooney
Santa
Lindberg
Atlantic
St. Louis
New York
Duke of Windsor
Prince of Wales
Mussolini
Mikhail Men