Bought your holiday cards yet? This vintage Brooklyn business card is your reminder.
Sending Christmas greeting cards was apparently enough of a tradition in Brooklyn by the turn of the last century that stationery stores put them at the top of their list of amenities on business cards.
I wonder what “fringed” cards looked like. Too bad the S.H. Palmer & Company stationery store can’t tell us, because they’ve long closed up shop. The last address at 481 Fulton was a cell phone store.
This card is part of the wonderful Fulton Street Trade Card Collection at the Brooklyn Public Library.
Tags: Brooklyn at the turn of the century, Brooklyn in 1900, Christmas Cards Brooklyn, Christmas in old Brooklyn, Fulton Street Brooklyn, old Brooklyn businesses, S.H. Palmer Stationery store, vintage business cards
Ephemeral New York 
November 28, 2013 at 4:25 pm |
Click on this link — found Victorian “fringed” cards on Ebay, which is probably what they were referring to.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-1882-Fringed-CHRISTMAS-CARD-Hand-Painted-TRAIN-SCENE-Ribbon-POM-POMs-/321258332297?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4acc7d2089
November 28, 2013 at 5:38 pm |
Thanks PG! What a weird fad.
November 30, 2013 at 8:09 pm |
Here is a link to one of Prang’s fringed cards
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Valentines/victorian.htm