Lillian Pease Card Company Records
name: label: Creator
content: Pease, L.F.
label: Names
content: Women's Christian Temperance Union
label: Donor
content: Gruppo, Barbara Pease
label: Donor
content: Leers, Katherine Pease
label: Donor
content: Piotrowicz, Elizabeth Pease
label: Donor
content: Rodney W. Pease, III
topic: label: Topic
content: Holidays
label: Topic
content: Greeting cards
label: Topic
content: Greeting card industry
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated in 2011 to the Archives Center by the great-grandchildren of Lillian F. Pease: Katherine Pease Leers, Barbara Pease Gruppo, Rodney W. Pease III, and Elizabeth Pease Piotrowicz.
creator: label: Creator
content: Pease, L.F.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Lillian Pease Card Company Records
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection consists of samples of primarily greeting cards designed and created by the Lillian Pease Card Company.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lillian Frances Kennedy Pease was born February 3, 1855 in New York. She worked as a teacher until her marriage to Alvah W. Pease, a jeweler from Buffalo, New York (1855-1925) in 1883. Shortly after her marriage she started a greeting card company on Laurel Street in Buffalo.  Her sister, Mary Elizabeth Kennedy Sandford, also created a greeting card company in Danville, New York in 1907. Pease used the Sandford Card Company as a distributor for some of her greeting cards.  Aside from her greeting card business Lillian was very involved in the Temperance Movement.  On one occasion Pease went to Ireland to take part in the Women's Christian Temperance Union convention. Mementoes of this trip are in the Sandford Card Company Collection. Pease died in 1933 and the company closed shortly after her death.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.33 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1908-1936; undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1251
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Postcards
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into two series.

Series 1: Greeting Cards and Postcards, 1910-1936; undated

Series 2: Copyright Materials, 1908-1912; undated
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Vanessa Broussard Simmons, archivist, January 2012.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists primarily of samples of cards designed and created by the Lillian Pease Card Company. Although most of the materials are greeting cards, there are also some postcards. Most of the cards have stock numbers and only a few of them are dated. Copyright applications and information pertaining to copyright registration are also found among these materials.  In addition, there are two catalogues that list favorite message cards and a list of  publications of the Sandford, Pease and Prince companies. The Sandford and Prince Card Companies were owned by Mary Elizabeth Sandford and Georgina Prince, sisters of Lillian Pease.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Archives Center holds the records of the Sandford Greeting Card Company and Family Papers (AC1252).