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From naughty gnomes and dancing pumpkins to rabbits driving cars, postcards have marked time like no other form of art. Before the telephone, postcards were the primary form of distant contact, selected by senders for their visual appeal, greetings were received from far away, celebrating every major holiday. Today these postcards are treasured artifacts as well as important historical documents from around the world. The entire family will enjoy the nostalgic visual journey holiday by holiday, and artists will find the graphic presentation stimulating and a must-have in their library.
The author has put together a wonderful book that gives the reader a Santa Claus history & how events of the times were seen in Santa postcards through the years. Santa trade cards, Santa holiday cards, even Santa cards from Elvis, it covers the periods from the late 1800s to the present. Descriptions accompanying all the beautiful illustrations are really interesting, very informative.
A colour illustrated survey of collectables and antiques associated with Christmas which also describes the pagan and Christian historical backgrounds of the festival.
If Christmas did not exist, Madison Avenue would have to invent it. Yet as Elliott shows in this beautiful book, not only is the Christmas season a time of lavish spending and entertaining, it also brings with it a flood of images and customs and totems that has come to epitomize what happiness with family and friends should look like. Drawing on his collection of more than 3,000 pieces of Christmas ephemera, including such extraordinary possessions as Charles Dickens's reading copy of A Christmas Carol, Elliott tells the beguiling tale of how this most dual-sacred and secular-of human festivals came into being. Opening this book each year deserves to be a tradition in itself.
