At this time of the year, we see a lot of Holiday Greeting Cards. There are dozens of card-making stores offering a variety of choices to make cards for you at a big range of prices. All of them provide you with something suitable for your taste. We make our own cards. This is no longer as fashionable as before, as it is time consuming and expensive. The following two pictures show our cards printed on both sides of one sheet of paper. When it is folded it becomes a half page card. Usually I do the pictures and Janice writes the poem as a message.
When we looked at some old pictures left by Janice’s father, we found some old Greeting Cards. I can tell you that he spent a lot more time to prepare Holiday cards than we did. The pictures below represent two of them, made when Janice was a very young child. Of course they were black and white, and they were printed on very thick photo paper. They might not look very fancy by modern standards, but Janice’s father printed them ALL by himself. That meant that he had to prepare the solutions first, both developing and fixing solutions. After getting the children ready to take pictures, he had to take a number of them, which Janice remembers as a chore they did not look forward to! It could take a whole day and be a dreaded experience for the kids. Then Janice’s father had to develop the film, after making the cards by free-hand. After taking another picture of the cards, he developed the result and waited for it to dry. Imagine how much effort had to be invested for the following cards:
Very few people did their greeting cards as shown above by themselves, as Janice's father did. Just the investment to have a darkroom to develop pictures was both costly and labor intensive!
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