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Rare Books and Special Collections Greeting Card Collection
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Manufactured Cards

The Manufactured Cards sub-subseries 33 consists of Valentines that have been cut and printed by machine. They are typically a single-fold card or may be printed on a single piece of cardstock. These cards have no evidence of human manipulation in its manufacturing and are typically one-dimensional.

Christmas cards, 1960s

Subseries consists of 175 greetings cards mostly for Christmas with some for New Years. Cards date from the 1960s. Many feature scenes of families, people, mothers, Santa Claus characters, or animals.

Ephemera

The Ephemera sub-subseries consists of miscellaneous, non-greeting card items, composed of 5 printed documents and 1 physical object. In it are writers, small pamphlets destined to provide the reader with tips on how to write letters and messages to all sorts of people, as well as greeting card catalogs and press. There is also a wall pocket, presumably used to hold cards, that was equally being sold by wholesalers of greeting cards.

Christmas cards, 1970s

Subseries consists of 175 greeting cards chiefly for Christmas. Cards date from the 1970s. Many cards featuring winter scenes or traditional Christian religious and nativity scenes, as well as scenes of mothers and children.

Miscellaneous Greeting Cards

The Miscellaneous Greeting Cards sub-subseries contains all cards that are not Valentines. They were either found within the same seller’s scrapbooks as the Valentine cards or were found mixed with the fonds, possibly belonging to a same recipient as the some of the Valentine cards. The other greeting cards take various forms and shapes and typically commemorate an important life event.

Christmas cards, 1980s

Subseries consists of 246 greeting cards mostly for Christmas with some for New Year's dating sometime during the 1980s. Many include winter scene and traditional Christmas scenes, including Santa Claus. Cards produced by major greeting card publishers, as well as cultural and charitable organizations and universities, including many from Hallmark, Carleton University, McGill University, and Les Prêtres du Sacre-Coeur.

Valentine with lace paper, illustration, and flowers

Intricate Valentine's card with painted cut paper border surrounding inner colour illustration of waterfall scene. Paper cherub perched at top of inner illustration. At bottom of inner illustration are dried sprigs of greenery and fabric lowers. Lower portion of cut paper border features fabric bow with printed text "Truly Yours."

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