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L Prang & CoOriginally born in Breslau, Prussia, Louis Prang arrived in America in 1850 and went into the lithographic printing business in Boston in 1856. ![]() At the Vienna Exposition in 1873, he distributed small business cards that had designs of flowers on a tinted or black background with a ribbon scroll for the name. It was the suggestion of an English lady that the ribbon or scroll on the cards be filled in with a Christmas greeting and be sold as a Christmas card. These first Prang Christmas cards appeared in England in 1873 but were not for sale in America until a year later. ![]() A notable feature of Prang cards is the attention paid to the reverse of the greeting card. The artists without fail accomplished a cleverly conceived and well executed design within the constraints of a reduced colour palette. Place the mouse pointer over the card above to view the design on the reverse.
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