Korean War Era Christmas Card, 1950

Item

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Wilson Scrapbook and Materials Collection is comprised of a scrapbook, a box of glass slides, and a box of printed material related to the Wilson family of Walker County, Texas.

Box one contains a 16 page scrapbook consisting of of photographs, newspaper articles, and cards. Box two contains four photographic glass slides and one glass slide fragment. Box three is comprised of seventeen stickers, five cards, four invitations, four tags, three newspaper articles, two programs and a piece of program ephemera, two v-mail envelopes, a newsletter, and a postcard.

Dates

1950

Extent

1 Sheets : White and blue Christmas card with black text.

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Physical Description

The white card opens onto a blue sheet. In the top left corner of the blue sheet is a black outline of a globe with the Korean peninsula. Near the bottom of the sheet is a black outline of the state of Texas with a mother and her two children. The messages on the sheet states, "From somewhere in Korea to deep East Texas... the Lynches and their little ones get together in heart to greet you this Christmas 1950 Juanita and Ray," in black text.