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The Greeting Card as a human record has had a long and storied history. While most of that history has occurred within the past 110 years, the notion of sharing written greetings goes back much further than that. From Ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire and then from Germany to England to America, written greetings have created a way for humans to “signal the cultural value attached to relationships over time.”[1] Ernest Chase perhaps said it best , “The story of the Greeting Card is truly a romance. The record of a vital, fast-growing industry, it is a picture of many times and different eras; and it is the story of many men and many women. In carrying messages of love and friendship, the Greeting Card has ever brought people closer together.”[2]
Within these pages you will find an overview of my proposed exhibit on the History of Greeting Cards as well as other historical information about Greeting Cards as a Human Record.
[1] Levy, Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age, 91.
[2] Chase, The Romance of Greeting Cards, 5.
Within these pages you will find an overview of my proposed exhibit on the History of Greeting Cards as well as other historical information about Greeting Cards as a Human Record.
[1] Levy, Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age, 91.
[2] Chase, The Romance of Greeting Cards, 5.
This website is part of the final project for LIS 717: Human Records and Society in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University. All of the written work is copyright of the creator, Rebecca Butler. All images are used by permission. Please see the complete bibliography for all references used in this site.