Image Gallery: Welcome Posters

Other variations on children:

Welcome. The young girl next door welcomes you (Artist and Publisher unknown)

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This essay inspired Stephen Inglis to offer a note on another regional form of popular art:
printed greetings to friends on the occasion of the spring harvest festival, Pongal

Also see a related gallery on the New Year Greeting Cards with a Hindu Nationalist perspective, by Christiane Brosius

We encourage and invite the visitors/readers to contribute to this image gallery by submitting unique images from thier own collections. We are looking for interesting examples of popular posters and calendar art depicting the theme of Welcome, Good Morning, or general Greetings that you either have in your own house, shop or vicinity, or see it on a street, at someon's house or on an autorickshaw. You will need to send us a digital image - either a scan or a digital photograph in high resolution and large size. The contributor's name would be provided on the website. The contributor would be responsible for taking neccesary copyright permissions about each image, in case such permissions are required. You can email your contributions to us at contribute@tasveerghar.net

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