{"id":9583,"date":"2009-12-23T12:03:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T19:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=9583"},"modified":"2009-12-23T18:31:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T01:31:30","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-ebony-classics-christmas-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-ebony-classics-christmas-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; Ebony Classics Christmas Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9587\" title=\"christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5200.jpg\" alt=\"christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5200\" width=\"550\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5200.jpg 550w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5200-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>\n<p>This &#8220;Imperial Collection&#8221; of African American Christmas cards was a rarity in the 1950s, hard-to-find among the rows of their Caucasian counterparts on drugstore and card shop shelves. Other than the depictions of Black Santas and elegantly garbed Ebony Classic ladies, these cards are especially generic with greetings like &#8220;Taking time out to stop and say: &#8220;Hello there! And hi! Merry Christmas and a happy and bright New Year!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Made by Colortone Originals of Mount Vernon, New York, the set contains 16 &#8220;Selected Christmas Cards with Envelopes&#8221;. Eight unique designs (of which I only have six),&nbsp; two cards of each.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9589\" title=\"christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5191.jpg\" alt=\"christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5191\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5191.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5191-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9591\" title=\"christmas-cards-ebony-classics_1941\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards-ebony-classics_1941.jpg\" alt=\"christmas-cards-ebony-classics_1941\" width=\"431\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards-ebony-classics_1941.jpg 431w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards-ebony-classics_1941-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9593\" title=\"christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5198.jpg\" alt=\"christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5198\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5198.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5198-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9595\" title=\"christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5195.jpg\" alt=\"christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5195\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5195.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards-ebony-classics_5195-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9639\" title=\"christmas-card-ebony_5205\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-card-ebony_5205.jpg\" alt=\"christmas-card-ebony_5205\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-card-ebony_5205.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-card-ebony_5205-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8220;Imperial Collection&#8221; of African American Christmas cards was a rarity in the 1950s, hard-to-find among the rows of their Caucasian counterparts on drugstore and card shop shelves. Other than the depictions of Black Santas and elegantly garbed Ebony Classic ladies, these cards are especially generic with greetings like &#8220;Taking time out to stop and &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-ebony-classics-christmas-cards\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,225,223,87,193],"tags":[61,865,867,3232,3245],"class_list":["post-9583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afro","category-clothes","category-holidays","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-allee-willis","tag-ebony-classics","tag-ebony-classics-christmas-cards","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}