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Show Printed Christmas Card Was Issued Back in '43 "THERE Is more humanity about the Victoria and Albert museum than Its stiff brick exterior suggests. The director has sent me a Christ mas Picture Book, says a writer In the London Star. It reveals the fact that the first Christmas card evei printed was Issued only as recently as 1843. The card, which was printed for Sir Henry Cole, first director of the South Kenington museum. Is reproduced along with many other efforts by art Ists, to celebrate the nativity. Thej range from "a walrus Ivory reiiel from Cologne to a modern woodcut by Erli GilL It Is strange to see how the artistic ar-tistic wheel has turned full circle back to the medieval austerity. But I can't help liking the first Christmas card, which "features," as the films say, a hearty meal. As the fat boy would say, "I likes eating best." |