Presidential History and White House Holiday Culture: Jimmy Carter Christmas Card, 1980

White House Christmas Card

Ephemera

Carter, Jimmy. White House Christmas Card, 1980, documents the ceremonial public culture of the presidency during the final year of the Carter administration. Issued from the White House during a politically consequential election year, the card connects presidential domestic ritual with historical memory through its image of the President’s House based on a mid-nineteenth-century painting.

Carter, Jimmy. White House Christmas Card. Washington, D.C.: The White House, 1980. Unsigned. Color card measuring 7” x 5”. The front depicts the President’s House as rendered from a mid-nineteenth-century painting, using historical architecture rather than contemporary portraiture to frame the presidency through continuity, residence, and national tradition.

White House Christmas cards form part of the material culture of modern presidential communication, circulating official seasonal greetings while presenting carefully selected images of national heritage. Light handling, excellent. Concise example of Carter-era presidential ephemera linking holiday exchange, White House iconography, and public memory.

Item #8790

Price: $85.00