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The modern Christmas card industry began in 1915 when a small printing company in Kansas, the Hall Brothers Company, published its first holiday greeting card. When the company changed its name to Hallmark in 1925 a new format was adopted, becoming the standard – four by six inches, folded in the middle, and with an accompanying envelope.

This Christmas greeting card, made in the U.S.A., features a fashionable woman carrying a wreath and a gift as she walks a small dog. It was discovered in the museum archives inside a scrapbook created by Miss Esther Evans who moved to Petersburg in the fall...

 

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