Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Card, Greeting |
Date |
1885 inscription |
Description |
Greeting card (birthday card). Color-printed illustration of a branch with red flowers and green leaves; gold border around edges. Printed inscription in varied typefaces: "MAY EACH / BIRTHDAY YET IN STORE / Be Brighter / THAN THE / ONE BEFORE" The reverse side has handwritten inscription in ink: "Grandma with love / March 2nd 1885." (Keywords: Floral, Holiday) |
Acquisition |
From Alice Austen |
Ownership and History |
This card is part of a collection of personal items that came to the Staten Island Historical Society from photographer Alice Austen in 1945. The "grandma" in the signature is likely Alice Austen's maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Alice (Townsend) Austen. |
Earliest Date |
1882 |
Latest Date |
1885 |
Material |
Paper |
Subjects |
Birthday cards Flowers Ephemera Holidays |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Austen, E. Alice Austen, Elizabeth Alice (Townsend) |
Catalog Number |
45.002.0044 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, January 2015. |
Legal Status |
Items represented here are from the collections of the Staten Island Historical Society. Materials reproduced for personal non-commercial use must credit the Staten Island Historical Society. Commercial licensing is available. |