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Birthday card themes remained general in nature during the nineteenth century. However, with the emergence of such businesses as Hallmark and the Buzza Company of Minneapolis in the twentieth century, birthday cards began to be designed for specific family members and friends.

A birthday letter
A birthday letter

birthdayCard
Birthday Greetings

BirthdayCard
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Black and White photo of Luther King on his sixth birthday, Fulda, MN, about 1903. Photographer: Emil King MHS Collections Location no. GT3.5 p13 Negative no. 41653
Luther King on his sixth birthday

Black and white photograph of seventieth birthday party for Sarah Smith Langdon, 1914. Photographer: Charles J. Hibbard (-1924) MHS Collections Location no. GT3.5 p22 Negative no. 63435
Seventieth birthday party for Sarah Smith Langdon

Victorian birthday card, ca. 1880
Victorian Birthday Card

Victorian birthday card, ca. 1880
Victorian Birthday Card

Victorian birthday card, ca. 1880
Victorian Birthday Card

Victorian birthday card, ca. 1880s. L. Prang & Co., Boston
Victorian Birthday Card


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