{"id":7909,"date":"2019-12-21T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=7909"},"modified":"2019-12-20T15:27:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:27:59","slug":"christmas-card-from-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/christmas-card-from-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas card from abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One time the Christmas card and letter was a sure connection to the old country.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a time before Facebook, Skype and emails, postcards and letters were the connection between people. Numerous of such greetings has crossed the Atlantic over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Roaming around in the <a href=\"https:\/\/digitaltmuseum.no\/\">Digitalt Museum,<\/a> a large collection of old photos and scans, mainly from Norway, I came across this Christmascard sent from Laurium, Michigan to Vads\u00f8 in Norway in 1907<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7905\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/christmas-card-from-abroad\/fbib-07004-046-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FBib.07004-046-1-scaled.jpg?fit=654%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"654,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FBib.07004-046 (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FBib.07004-046-1-scaled.jpg?fit=654%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7905 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FBib.07004-046-1.jpg?resize=654%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FBib.07004-046-1-scaled.jpg?w=654&amp;ssl=1 654w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FBib.07004-046-1-scaled.jpg?resize=192%2C300&amp;ssl=1 192w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FBib.07004-046-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1203&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FBib.07004-046-1-scaled.jpg?resize=981%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 981w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The reverse side:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7908\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/christmas-card-from-abroad\/fbib-07004-066\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FBib.07004-066-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C643&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FBib.07004-066\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FBib.07004-066-scaled.jpg?fit=800%2C502&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7908 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FBib.07004-066.jpg?resize=800%2C502&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FBib.07004-066-scaled.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FBib.07004-066-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FBib.07004-066-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C482&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FBib.07004-066-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C965&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Hilda in Laurium who sent this greeting to Ms. Olga Pedersen in Vads\u00f8, Norway.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-note\"  style=\"border-color:#d2d7a9;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\"><div class=\"su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"background-color:#ecf1c3;border-color:#ffffff;color:#333333;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\">Dec 4th Dear Olga. I wish you a very Merry Christmas and wishes for a happy and lucky new year. I wish I could celebrate another Christmas in Norway as they were the best I ever had. Greetings Hilda. <\/div><\/div>\n<p>Over the next years Hilda and also Agnes O sent cards to Olga Pedersen in Vads\u00f8.<\/p>\n<p>Having had a quick look in the Norwegian Digitalarkivet and also on Family search I find several possible candidates. With more work it could be possible to find the individuals that sent these cards. If you know who this can be, it would be fun if you left a comment below. In the meantime, we can enjoy the simple beauty of the Christmas cards of yesteryear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One time the Christmas card and letter was a sure connection to the old country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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