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Horsley, and asked him to design an idea that Cole had sketched out in his mind. Unlike many holiday traditions—can anyone really say who sent the first Christmas fruitcake? In their image of the family celebrating, Cole and Horsley had included several young children enjoying what appear to be glasses of wine along with their older siblings and parents. While Cole and Horsley get the credit for the first, it took several decades for the Christmas card to really catch on, both in Great Britain and the United States.

Louis Prang, a Prussian immigrant with a print shop near Boston, is credited with creating the first Christmas card originating in the United States in You were typically looking at animals, nature, scenes that could have taken place in October or February. Appreciation of the quality and the artistry of the cards grew in the late s, spurred in part by competitions organized by card publishers, with cash prizes offered for the best designs.

People soon collected Christmas cards like they would butterflies or coins, and the new crop each season were reviewed in newspapers, like books or films today. In , prominent British arts writer Gleeson White devoted an entire issue of his influential magazine, The Studio, to a study of Christmas cards.

While he found the varied designs interesting, he was not impressed by the written sentiments. The modern Christmas card industry arguably began in , when a Kansas City-based fledgling postcard printing company started by Joyce Hall, later to be joined by his brothers Rollie and William, published its first holiday card.

The Hall Brothers company which, a decade later, change its name to Hallmark , soon adapted a new format for the cards—4 inches wide, 6 inches high, folded once, and inserted in an envelope. Postcards Postcards Send love and save on postage! Customize your own postcards today.

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