Holiday Archives - Vintage American Postcard art sharing fun, beautiful and entertaining images of early 1900s America Sun, 19 Feb 2023 19:41:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Last Supper https://www.vintage-american.com/holiday/easter/vintage-religious-postcard-reproduction/ Sun, 19 Feb 2023 19:35:20 +0000 https://www.vintage-american.com/?p=3687 Vintage religious postcard reproduction of The Last Supper with Jesus and the Apostles. The postcard was created in the 1930’s from a stained-glass window reproduction, in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA of the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Although the original painting was done in the 15th-century as a mural painting for the […]

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]]> Starry Halloween Night https://www.vintage-american.com/holiday/halloween/starry-halloween-night/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 13:57:49 +0000 https://www.vintage-american.com/?p=3507 This magical Halloween postcard is a Winsch 1913 design originally called “A Halloween Constellation.” The Halloween night constellation in the sky is of a witch flying on a broom outlined in stars. The moon is a pumpkin head and below is an autumn field with pumpkins, a black cat, an owl, and a bat! It’s […]

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]]> Girl With Candle https://www.vintage-american.com/holiday/halloween/girl-with-candle/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 13:44:16 +0000 https://www.vintage-american.com/?p=3503 This vintage Halloween postcard from a Whitney 1911 design shows a little girl in nightgown holding a candle to a mirror to see a ghost behind! The spooky ghost is a trick from some little Halloween sprites that are holding a sheet on a broomstick and a pumpkin. These little Halloween sprites are interesting. They […]

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]]> Angels Decorating the Christmas Tree https://www.vintage-american.com/holiday/christmas/angels-decorating-christmas-tree/ Fri, 25 Nov 2016 23:01:46 +0000 https://www.vintage-american.com/?p=3128 Vintage Christmas card from 1909 of two little Angels Decorating the Christmas Tree. With their wings flapping, they are busy painting ornaments on the tree.

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]]> Santa Claus and the Narrow Chimney https://www.vintage-american.com/holiday/christmas/santa-claus-narrow-chimney/ Sun, 30 Oct 2016 17:58:10 +0000 https://www.vintage-american.com/?p=3114 This early 1900’s Christmas postcard shows a resilient Santa Claus determined to make it down a narrow chimney with all the gifts for Christmas Eve. A few balloons will help!

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]]> Christmas Train with Flags https://www.vintage-american.com/holiday/christmas/christmas-train-with-flags/ Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:44:39 +0000 https://www.vintage-american.com/?p=2738 Everyone loves trains at Christmas time. In this vintage train postcard we see passengers dressed in Victorian clothing headed somewhere – to visit family and friends. It strikes the imagination with wonder – Where are they going? Whom will they visit? Will it snow? Will there be a grand Christmas tree and a party? Children […]

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]]> Victorian Santa Claus with Gifts https://www.vintage-american.com/holiday/christmas/victorian-santa-claus-with-gifts/ Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:34:14 +0000 https://www.vintage-american.com/?p=2729 Images of Santa Claus from the 1930’s and beyond show a round, jolly Santa that we have all come to know. But many of the old Victorian Santa Claus cards depict a stern image of Santa in keeping with the discipline of the day. This beautiful postcard surprisingly shows a bright, colorful, Victorian Santa Claus […]

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]]> The Boy and the Turkey Vintage Thanksgiving Postcard https://www.vintage-american.com/holiday/thanksgiving/the-boy-and-the-turkey-vintage-thanksgiving-postcard/ Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:23:57 +0000 https://www.vintage-american.com/?p=2697 This vintage Thanksgiving postcard seems a bit harsh to us today, but in the early 1900s it would have represented a very normal aspect of American farm life. It would have been a farm boy’s hope at Thanksgiving that he would be given the opportunity to hunt for the most important feature of the annual […]

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]]> Retro Witch Flying Postcard https://www.vintage-american.com/holiday/halloween/retro-witch-flying-postcard/ Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:09:35 +0000 https://www.vintage-american.com/?p=2658 This old Halloween postcard shows the silhouette of a retro witch and black cat flying an old propeller airplane across a red moon in an orange sky. The little cat is very dapper with a bow tie as he gazes down at the ground while the witch is hurling them through the air in what […]

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]]> Vintage Halloween Girl Postcard https://www.vintage-american.com/holiday/halloween/vintage-halloween-girl-postcard/ Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:55:19 +0000 https://www.vintage-american.com/?p=2646 This vintage Halloween postcard image has a lovely girl in a red dress sitting on a pumpkin on Halloween night. A bat is flying by and a black cat is howling at her feet. But she is not disturbed and looks quite pretty in a vintage pin-up way. Notice the owl eyes in her hat! […]

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