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1991.8.23

ID Number: 1991.8.23
Category: Communication Artifacts
Sub-category: documentary artifact
Item Type: greeting
Item Name: card
Materials: PAPER, UNKNOWN
Description: Squarish, cream-coloured textured paper envelope with flap; Squarish, cream-coloured textured paper card opens at bottom; Cover is 2cm shorter than inside and its bottom edge has the "torn" look; Cover: "Our Gift to You" in black letters; drawing of a c.1860s woman on a stone patio (black, pink, light blue, yellow, green); Inside Top: "With this gift go all our wishes,/But they cannot quite express/In words or lines or symbols/Our hopes for your success./We wish you luck; we wish you joy;/We wish you everything/That health and wealth and/happiness/And love can ever bring." in black letters; Inside bottom: signed, "Hazel & Alex" in black ink (this can be seen when the card is closed, due to the shorter length of the cover.)
History: Wedding card for Eugene and Vida (O'Gorman) Lajeunesse, married October 7, 1929, at Sacred Heart Church in LaSalle.
Collection Name: Museum Windsor
Subject (Fre): Y

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Churches / Églises subject

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