Greetings from Space (and Closer to Home, Too)

"To all mankind, America's wish for peace on earth and good will toward men everywhere."
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

On this date in 1958,the U.S. satellite Atlas transmitted the first radio broadcast from space, a fifty-eight-word recorded Christmas greeting from President Eisenhower.

Brenda and Walt Kuhn's Christmas Greetings 1934 are a bit more down-to-earth, but anyone would be happy to receive this artistic couple's holiday card!

Pictured: Brenda and Walt Kuhn, Christmas Greetings 1934, 1934, hand-colored photo-mechanical relief reproduction of an ink drawing, 5 x 6 3/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of La Salle Spier.