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CHRISTMAS CARDS Album, To Mamms [Album 2] [graphic material] / Various artists

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Date:

1878.

Reference:

R11648-0-7-E, Volume number: 2

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4345276

Context of this record:

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Kenneth Rowe fonds

CHRISTMAS CARDS Album, To Mamms [Album 2]
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Date(s):

1878.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

1 album : 157 items - 37 folios: Christmas cards, lithographs and photographs ; 146 prints, 10 reproductions and 1 photograph ; 29.0 x 24.5 x 3.0 cm [album].

Language of material:

English

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Album 2 is 1 of 11 bound albums which include Victorian scapbooks, and catalogues and order books for greeting cards, and donor's presentation albums. This album is part of a collection which also includes loose items, artifacts and general ephemera with philatelic elements.

Album has a red/brown cover with a colour lithograph image of children, one riding a donkey, in a forest. A banner appears above the central image and is printed with title: "CHRISTMAS CARDS." Letters and corners are embellished with images of birds, children, toys and Santa Claus. Cover design is framed by a floral motif of leaves, twigs and branches, within an outer ruled box border. It bears inscription on recto folio 1: "To Mamms / Jan 1[^st].. 1878".

Album has 37 folios of papers of different colours and contains ca. 275 items, laid down to pages, dating primarily from 1860's to 1870's. Items comprise primarily greeting cards: Christmas, Birthday, Easter, Sympathy, Friendship; also: name cards, stickers, cut-outs, and one reproduction of a poem. Cards are both of commercial production and hand-made. Publishers represented include: J. W. Bufford's Sons; E. P. & L. Restein, Phila. P.A.; Goodall; G.W. Clarke, Mtl.; Marcus Ward & Co.; L. Prang & Co., Boston; Religious Tract Society, London; B. Sulman, London; Eyre & Spottiswoode; W. & C. K. Herrick, New York; Thomas Stevens; H. Rothe.
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J. W. Bufford 's, and Sons

E. P. and L. Restein

Goodall

G. W. Clarke

L. Prang & Co., Boston

Marcus Ward and Co

Religious Tract Society

B. Sulman

Eyre and Spottiswoode

W. and C.K. Herrick

Thomas Stevens

H. Rothe
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(Electronic) item descriptions on-line in Mikan database. R11648-2, (90: Open)

(Paper) Word item-list. R11648-2, On accession file R11648-2005, in art library. (90: Open)

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Physical description note:

Manufacturer's label inside front cover on end paper, inscribed u.l. in gold print on brown paper: DURIE & SON / GENERAL / Booksellers & Stationers / SPARKS ST. / OTTAWA [on banner]

Note on the state of conservation:

Good condition.

Custodial history:

From private source: Ottawa ?, collected by Kenneth Rowe.

Arrangement note:

ca. 18 loose items: 17 cards, 1 envelope, originally located in this album have been removed and catalogued as loose items: see R11648-54 to -71

Dates of creation note:

Although the album was seemingly assembled in 1878, it contains Christmas cards of earlier dates; contents likely date from ca. 1860's up to 1878.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed in pen and faded black ink, on fol. 1, recto, on floral name card, c.: To Mamms / Jan 1 [^st] 1878

Subject heading:

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Christmas cards

Source:

Private
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access through an art archivist.

Volume [R11648]

[Consultation 90 Open]

2 File number 2

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Access. No. R11648-2 ;
Copyright: Expired

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