Behold! The Very First Christmas Card (1843)

Christmas cards aren’t just an anachronism. They’re almost an endangered species, the victim of the Internet, postal rate increases, and the jettisoning of any time consuming tradition whose execution has been found to bring the opposite of joy.

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@openculture Invented by #HenryCole, the model for the 'third gentleman' in #Dickens #HardTimes, who berates schoolchildren with the lesson that ‘What is called #Taste, is only another name for Fact.’