We're starting our Fourth of July holiday celebrations early this week ...

Front side of a postcard celebrating the Fourth of July

We're starting our Fourth of July holiday celebrations early this week with an undated postcard from Hagley Library’s Waldron collection of Christmas and holiday postcards (Acc. 200.223).

This collection of over 500 items was donated to the Hagley Library in 1973 by Maxine Maxson Waldron (1898-1982), an artist and educator once employed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its department of education, by various private schools as an art teacher, and as a ceramics specialist at the Greenwich House Pottery Shop. After her marriage to William R. Waldron, an employee at Du Pont's Chambers Works, she pursued her interests in art, fashion, and interior decoration through her activities as a collector.

You can view digitized images from this collection by visiting its page in our Digital Archive.