Christmas Cards
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of Victorian printed ephemera
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1982
Content Description
Collection of 32 Victorian printed ephemera, in colour: greeting cards, birthday cards, New Year and Christmas cards, religious cards with short prayers, a Valentine card, and two advertisements for Heinz and Ivelcon. Some cards are annotated in the back by the people who sent or received them.
Dates:
19th - early 20th century
Handmade magazine The Cavalier, double Xmas no 1916 Vol. IV, together with a photograph album of the Smythe family
Collection — Box CLX-A-375
Identifier: Coll-1880
Scope and Contents
One handmade 'magazine' constructed by Scottish ladies forming a group called 'The Cavalier Club', composed of Barbara E. Smythe (editor), Susy F. Lumsden (treasurer), Jean Drummond, Victoria A. Drummond, Frances A. Drummond, Doreen Arbuthnot, and Susan Newdegate. The magazine is entitled The Calavier and was to be borrowed by a select group of recipients, to help raise funds for the war effort. This is the Double Xmas no. 1916, vol IV. It includes short...
Dates:
1916-1930
Household and family items, c1920-c1960
Series
Identifier: BAI 13
Scope and Contents
Household and family items consists of:
- Account/bank books
- Cuttings of intimations
- Christmas cards (& list)
- Items relating to moving from New York to Canada
- Party games
- Recipes
Dates:
c1920-c1960
Letters from Edwin and Willa Muir to Morley and Flora Jamieson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2061
Content Description
This fonds consists of friendly letters and cards from Edwin and Willa Muir to their wartime lodgers Morley and Flora Jamieson: an autograph letter signed from Edwin and Willa to Flora, two autograph letters signed from Willa to Morley and Flora, a carbon-copy typed letter from Edwin to Morley and Flora, a Christmas autograph correspondence card signed from Willa to the Jamiesons' dog Jinty, and a Christmas autograph picture postcard signed from Willa. The letters were sent from Edinburgh,...
Dates:
1944-1963
Material relating to Charles Thelander MB ChB (Edin) FRACS
Collection — CLX-A-1558
Identifier: Coll-1758
Scope and Contents
The material is largely photographic but may be added to in the future. There are board-mounted group photographs by A. Swan Watson, Bruntisfield, Edinburgh:
Photograph of Theatrical group, with signatures including Charles A. Thelander, dressed as 'nun'
SRC, Students' Representative Council, Executive Committee, including Charles A. Thelander, 1903-1904
E.U. Winter...
Dates:
1903-1909
Mostly photographs related to 1 Keats Grove, Hampstead N.W. 3, 16 March 1961, 1937-1981, 1945-1949
File
Identifier: Coll-705/6/8
Scope and Contents
Documents in this file include (1) a Christmas card, the design of which is a watercolor illustration of the back of 1 Keats Grove, the house which Marjorie Rackstraw bought in 1937. Inside this card was the (2) illustration titled "Different Ways of Celebrating Peace". The original envelope read "Did Barnie do these? I imagine so, if so Sarah might like them. Back of M Rackstraw's house, 1 Keats Grove, Hampstead, London." (3) 4 photos depicting her and three guests in the house. The...
Dates:
16 March 1961; 1937-1981; 1945-1949
Papers of Professor William Fraser Mitchell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-86
Scope and Contents
The papers of Professor Mitchell at MS 2271-2290 include poems, plays and an unfinished novel Moth and Peaseblossom which was to followCobweb and mustard seedpublished in 1928; copies of A slim volume; notes and manuscripts; general letters from between the 1920s and the 1980s; papers on educational research; letters to him on education; papers on contemporary poets and artists; and, material on religion and tolerance, and pulpit teaching. There are card indexes for Mitchell's research on...
Dates:
circa 1919-1984
Scrapbook containing letters from John Masefield to Elizabeth Talbot Rice
Fonds — Box CLX-A-360
Identifier: Coll-1844
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook containing approx. 30 signed letters and Christmas cards from John Masefield to Elizabeth Talbot Rice. Some of them are illustrated, some others contain unpublished poems written specifically for Elizabeth. Also includes a signed photograph of John Masefield with his cat, and an envelope with three wax seals.Some of the most interesting letters include:
Letter on p. 1 containing a...
Dates:
1930s-1960s (before 1967)