1910s
A cheerful collection of 20 vintage Mother’s Day cards
Here’s a look back at some of the sweet vintage Mother’s Day cards – including a few of the 240 million greeting cards just for mom that were sold back in 1959.
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1940s
Whitman’s Chocolates & the Mother’s Day guilt trips (1940s)
In the early 1940s, Whitman’s Chocolates heavily promoted their product as the ideal Mother’s Day gift — and they laid the guilt on thick. “There is no hurt like forgetting.”
1950s
How to decorate a party house-shaped cake (1956)
You’ll be the cleverest hostess at any party, year ’round when you bake a cake that looks like a house, a church, a barn or a school.
1910s
Mother’s Day presidential proclamation (1914)
A proclamation: Display the flag at their homes or other suitable places on the second Sunday in May as a public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country…
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