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Lillian Pease Card Company Records

Creator:
Pease, L.F.  Search this
Names:
Women's Christian Temperance Union  Search this
Donor:
Gruppo, Barbara Pease  Search this
Leers, Katherine Pease  Search this
Piotrowicz, Elizabeth Pease  Search this
Rodney W. Pease, III  Search this
Extent:
2.33 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Postcards
Date:
1908-1936; undated
Summary:
The collection consists of samples of primarily greeting cards designed and created by the Lillian Pease Card Company.
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists primarily of samples of cards designed and created by the Lillian Pease Card Company. Although most of the materials are greeting cards, there are also some postcards. Most of the cards have stock numbers and only a few of them are dated. Copyright applications and information pertaining to copyright registration are also found among these materials. In addition, there are two catalogues that list favorite message cards and a list of publications of the Sandford, Pease and Prince companies. The Sandford and Prince Card Companies were owned by Mary Elizabeth Sandford and Georgina Prince, sisters of Lillian Pease.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into two series.

Series 1: Greeting Cards and Postcards, 1910-1936; undated

Series 2: Copyright Materials, 1908-1912; undated
Biographical / Historical:
Lillian Frances Kennedy Pease was born February 3, 1855 in New York. She worked as a teacher until her marriage to Alvah W. Pease, a jeweler from Buffalo, New York (1855-1925) in 1883. Shortly after her marriage she started a greeting card company on Laurel Street in Buffalo. Her sister, Mary Elizabeth Kennedy Sandford, also created a greeting card company in Danville, New York in 1907. Pease used the Sandford Card Company as a distributor for some of her greeting cards. Aside from her greeting card business Lillian was very involved in the Temperance Movement. On one occasion Pease went to Ireland to take part in the Women's Christian Temperance Union convention. Mementoes of this trip are in the Sandford Card Company Collection. Pease died in 1933 and the company closed shortly after her death.
Related Materials:
The Archives Center holds the records of the Sandford Greeting Card Company and Family Papers (AC1252).
Provenance:
Donated in 2011 to the Archives Center by the great-grandchildren of Lillian F. Pease: Katherine Pease Leers, Barbara Pease Gruppo, Rodney W. Pease III, and Elizabeth Pease Piotrowicz.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions. Users must receive written permission from appropriate rights holders prior to obtaining high quality copies.
Topic:
Holidays  Search this
Greeting cards  Search this
Greeting card industry  Search this
Genre/Form:
Postcards
Citation:
Lillian Pease Card Company Records, 1908-1936; undated, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier:
NMAH.AC.1251
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Archival Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8add065a2-6207-4b78-ad72-26d3b0410c02
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-1251
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