Seasons Greetings card

front of 2024.1001.165

front of 2024.1001.165

Name/Title

Seasons Greetings card

Entry/Object ID

2024.1001.165

Scope and Content

Winter landscape of couple with child walking up to the front of a house with a woman and other child. "The Seasons Greetings" Top left corner has significant water damage. Crew written on the interior. Admiral Ellis briefly onboard in for visit to Haiti in 1940. Emmet captin of ship from 1938 to June 1940. Card is likely 1939.

Context

Battleship Texas participated in various neutrality patrols and escort missions in the North Atlantic Ocean from November 1939 to December 7, 1941. The crew of Battleship Texas made holiday cards and gifts for those back home, and occasionally held holiday events when in port.

Collection

Historical Collections, eBay Purchase

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Card, Courting

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Card, Greeting

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Correspondence

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Items Details

Date(s) of Creation

Dec 25, 1939