Lillian Frances Kennedy Pease
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gilman, Georgiana Sandford, 1887-1982
label: Collection Creator
content: MacDowell, Helen Sandford, 1889-
label: Collection Creator
content: Pease, L.F.
label: Collection Creator
content: Prince, Georgiana K., 1861-1915
label: Collection Creator
content: Sandford, Frank S., 1853-1924
label: Collection Creator
content: Sandford Greeting Card Company
label: Collection Creator
content: Sandford, Mary Elizabeth, 1852-1936
label: Collection Creator
content: Sandford, Ruth, 1879-1972
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content: Sandford Greeting Card Company and Family Papers
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content: Sandford Greeting Card Company and Family Papers / Series 3: Kennedy Family Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1875-2003
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1252, Subseries 3.3
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content: Archival materials
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content: Materials consist primarily of the correspondence of Lillian Frances Kennedy Pease and date from 1875-2003.  Known as Lil, LFP and Aunt Lil, Lillian Frances was born on February 3, 1855. She like her sister, Mary Elizabeth, was a teacher who painted china before going into the card business. Lillian married Alvin W. Pease, a jeweler, (1855-1925) in 1883 in Buffalo, New York where the couple both ran businesses. Lillian established the Pease Greeting Card Company on Laurel Street and used the Sandford Card Company as a distributor. She was involved in the Temperance Movement and went to Ireland to take part in the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Her card company existed until her death in 1933. Materials are arranged in chronological order.