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Holiday Open House and Exhibit Opening                              Wednesday, December 2, 4 - 6 p.m.                              Nabb Research Center Reading Room & Gallery Please visit the Reading Room to see the rich variety of historical resources available for research.  Join the Nabb staff and volunteers in our new gallery space to celebrate the opening of An Eastern Shore Holiday:  Greetings and Gifts exhibit.

An Eastern Shore Holiday:  Greetings and Gifts Nov. 30 - Dec. 18 MWF 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. or by appointment Nabb Research Center Gallery Using a wide variety of Victorian postcards with their sentimental greetings and variant views of Christmas and its symbols as a backdrop, the Nabb Center presents a changing view of the holiday season and gift giving from 1880-1920.  The Wicomico County Historical Society’s vast collection of toys and household artifacts demonstrates clearly how the affluent Victorian society became preoccupied with a visible display of possessions and of wealth.  For the first time in America, leisure time provided an opportunity for gift-giving and for a display of that new-found wealth.  Toys are more elaborate and much more numerous than in previous periods.  Likewise, for those in “Newtown” and Camden Avenue’s “Millionaire’s Row” in Salisbury, wealth is evident in the choices of objects with which people decorated their homes.  This exhibit provides a glance back into a bygone time, with its love of conspicuous consumption.  The exhibit is free and open to the public.