New Year Card
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Dublin Core
Title
New Year Card
Subject
Lichliter, Zelda
Description
On December 28th, 1926 Miss Zelda Lichliter of Strasburg Virginia received this New Year’s card from Seona of Richmond Virginia.
New Year cards were initially developed in the 19th century as secular versions of Christmas cards. Their use soon spread as communities around the world began using mass produced cards to celebrate almost every holiday, special occasion, and social visit.
When Zelda received this card, printed materials were still popular forms of communication. However, their role would become more limited as phone service, and now internet connectivity spread throughout the country. While New Year, and other holiday cards are still sold, their popularity has waned.
Who Seona was is unknown. However, we do know who Zelda Lichliter was. She was born in 1905 in Strasburg. Her father, William F. Lichliter worked for the B&O railroad and her mother Elizabeth Williams Lichliter was a homemaker. Both they, Zelda, her brother Frank, and sister Pauline were active members of the local Presbyterian Church. Zelda worked in numerous different places throughout her life but returned to the family home on Washington Street where she died in 1990. Her papers, and many of those of her family, are preserved in Shenandoah County Library’s Truban Archives.
New Year cards were initially developed in the 19th century as secular versions of Christmas cards. Their use soon spread as communities around the world began using mass produced cards to celebrate almost every holiday, special occasion, and social visit.
When Zelda received this card, printed materials were still popular forms of communication. However, their role would become more limited as phone service, and now internet connectivity spread throughout the country. While New Year, and other holiday cards are still sold, their popularity has waned.
Who Seona was is unknown. However, we do know who Zelda Lichliter was. She was born in 1905 in Strasburg. Her father, William F. Lichliter worked for the B&O railroad and her mother Elizabeth Williams Lichliter was a homemaker. Both they, Zelda, her brother Frank, and sister Pauline were active members of the local Presbyterian Church. Zelda worked in numerous different places throughout her life but returned to the family home on Washington Street where she died in 1990. Her papers, and many of those of her family, are preserved in Shenandoah County Library’s Truban Archives.
Source
Lichliter Collection
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
December 28, 1926
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
Citation
“New Year Card,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed May 10, 2024, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/6884.
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