I recycle my Christmas cards. They arrive in the mail, I read them, I cut the writing off the back, I turn them into a Christmas post card with a friend's address, ...

The Origin Story of Christmas Cards The first formal card was designed by an Englishman in 1843. ... by John Washbourn and wife of 22 Theberton Street in Islington, London, still survives.

Old Christmas postcards reflect Southern California's long campaign to portray itself as a paradise — the opposite of cold, wintry parts of the U.S.

Christmas in 1950 was a low time for the writer Langston Hughes.The opera for which he’d written a libretto — The Barrier — was a commercial and critical failure; his recently published book ...

But for a few short years between 1907 and 1910, Christmas postcards created a visual conversation between Americans that was unique because it was also very public.