Card, Calling

Name/Title

Card, Calling

Entry/Object ID

28.22.24

Description

August Billing Calling Card. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/2" x 4". Description: colorful fancy Victorian card featuring a woman's hand holding a yellow breasted bird, a floral background and an envelope graphic with a scripted message, "Accept my unchanging love"; the precision cut card is adhered to white cardstock with a cut scalloped edge and stamped with the name: August A. Billing; reverse side handwritten signature of Amanda Schwartzkopf and "AES".

Context

From the collection of the Henry Lewer family. Amanda Schwartzkopf (born in 1891) later married a Lewer.

Made/Created

Date made

1910

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Card, Calling

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Card, Identification

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Personal Identification

Nomenclature Class

Personal Symbols

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Card, Calling

Create Date

June 10, 2022

Update Date

September 19, 2024