Connections
The greeting cards in this collection have much to tell us about the time they were made, and about the social experience of the people who sent and received them. The speak about design aesthetics, about representations of femininity and masculinity, about social obligations, about religious beliefs and about ties of kinship and affection. They preserve traces of the contact of Spanish and English, and the features of a social network that changed in shape and membership over the course of several decades.
Ornate and elaborate, these fifty one surviving cards were sent to commemorate birthdays, holidays, and other milestones like the birth of a child. They were used to send wishes of health and to update family and friends that were far away. They performed the most important function of maintaining human connection across distances.
Birthday
Beautiful rose design, Writing in Spanish
Muchos años de vida Jane Schubert
Christmas & New Years
Embroidered. Silver thread. 'Feliz año nuevo'
Birds nest artwork & writing in Spanish
Birds nest artwork & writing in Spanish
Handmade Christmas and New Years Card from E. Jane Shanahan to her parents (1967) 'Spiritual Bouquet'.
Handmade Christmas and New Years Card from E. Jane Shanahan to her parents (1967) 'Spiritual Bouquet'.
Christmas card and envelope from Carmen Gutiérez to Santos Baros Schubert. On the back side of the card, there is letter handwritten in English.
Christmas card and envelope from Carmen Gutiérez to Santos Baros Schubert. On the back side of the card, there is letter handwritten in English.
Christmas and New years card. Writing in Spanish.
Christmas and New years card. Writing in Spanish.
V-Mail Christmas greetings. Writing in Spanish.
Easter
Easter card
Easter card
Easter card. Handwriting in Spanish
Easter card. Handwriting in Spanish
Postcards
Handwriting in Spanish
Postcard
Valentine's Day
Valentines Card 'To my love warm the cockles of my heart'
Valentines day card 'A Tarzan fan'
Valentines day card 'A Tarzan fan'
Valentines Card
Valentines Card (expandable)
Mother's Day
Mother's Day card and envelope
Mother's Day card and envelope
Welcome Baby
Card to congratulate parents on baby's birth
Card to congratulate parents on baby's birth
Family Letters: On the Migration from Jesusita to Jane is a project directed by Isabel Velázquez, and published jointly by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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