Did You Know: Holiday Edition

• The first Christmas card was commissioned by Sir Henry Cole in London in 1843.
• In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first official White House card.
• Hallmark estimates that 2.1 billion holiday cards are sent each year.
• The average American household mails out 28 holiday cards and receives 28 cards in return.
• In the early 19^th century, women’s service groups collected greeting cards, removed pictures and created scrapbooks for children in hospitals, orphanages, kindergartens and missions before picture books became readily available and affordable.

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