Winter Birds (& Poems) Vintage Cards
These images are from chromolithograph greeting cards made by L. Prang & Co. in the late 1800s in Boston. The artist was Hector Giacomelli, and the poems are signed E.S.F.
You can download these images and use them for art, scrapbooking, junk journaling, etc.– they’re in the public domain in the US and come from the NYPL’s Digital Collection here. I’ve cropped them and made them into individual JPG images, which is what you see here.
If you’d like higher quality PNGs at 300 DPI, or if you’d like a high quality printable page of all four images on one US letter size page, then visit my shop to snag that download.
Source
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. “Christmas cards depicting birds and flowers, with poetry.” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 8, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/09361370-c5c5-012f-f264-58d385a7bc34
