Who Were They?

Lost and forgotten photos from the past

This Christmas card features a red border, red, green and black inks as well as gold metallic ink, all depicting flowers, holly and a lantern. The sentiment is: A bright and happy Christmas Season / and all good wishes for the Coming Year Stena K. Hetland It is possible the sender was Stena K Hetland …

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This Christmas card looks a bit like a college graduation announcement, with that circular image and the old English font, but in fact it is a Christmas greeting. The picture features a small house set back in the woods, surrounded by snow. The greeting is: To greet you with all kind thoughts / and good …

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Here is a greeting sent to Geo & Mollie from Hett. The text is as follows: Accept these season’s greetings, in the good old fashioned way, I wish you joy and happiness, on this Christmas Day It appears as though this is also an arts & crafts influenced greeting card similar to the one by …

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This little card is a postcard greeting, published by the J. Raymond Howe Company of Chicago, IL. In my research I discovered this company was active between 1904-1914 or so, and is considered one of the early arts & crafts card publishers. Arts & crafts publishers used images influenced by the arts & crafts movement, …

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