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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard of a girl seated on stones, with a boy resting his head on her lap. Burned-out buildings along a street can be seen behind them. The image... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day postcard featuring a girl and a boy. The girl, wearing a pink dress, stockings and shoes, with a red, white and blue sash and hair ribbon, ... |
| Date: | 12 21 1909 |
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| Description: | Embossed postcard with a drawing of Santa Claus wearing driving goggles and driving an automobile. A Christmas tree and several toys are loaded in the back... |
| Date: | 02 14 1910 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day postcard featuring a cherub with a pink sash. The cherub is raising a line of signal flags up a flagpole. In the upper left conrner is the ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A Christmas greeting postcard with an illustration of a winter scene of a woman standing in the snow near a bridge, framed by a wreath of holly and berries... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Holiday greeting card with a child standing in the snow and holding ornaments to put on a tree outdoors. There is also a house and another tree in the back... |
| Date: | 12 31 1912 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with a an illustration of a branch of Poinsettia. In the upper right corner in red ink, "A Happy New Year." |
| Date: | 12 26 1907 |
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| Description: | Holiday greeting postcard with violets and clover in the foreground framing the "1908" date, and at the top is a house and barn on a hill. Text at foot in ... |
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| Description: | Holiday greeting postcard with an illustration of a boy and a girl holding a large wishbone decorated with holly and berries. Chromolithograph and embossed... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard combining wild roses, pine branches, holly and a scene of a church in the snow. The scene is in the lower right, the background is gold an... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard of two cherubs gazing over a gold frame. The frame contains a scene of a church in the snow, with a tree and the moon. The background is b... |
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| Description: | Friendship postcard with a summer scene of a man in a rowboat, moored to a post, fishing. Trees are on a rise in the background and foliage is growing in t... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard that reads: "Good Luck for Christmas; Good Luck for the New Year For you and yours and Everybody you hold dear." The postcard is embellish... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Spring postcard of women wearing pastel dresses, picking cherry blossoms. The scene is within an architectural themed frame with a potted tree on either si... |
| Date: | 12 29 1914 |
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| Description: | New Years postcard with a drawing of a home with trees, in the snow, near a stream. Text reads: "A Happy New Year. All good Wishes for a bright and happy N... |
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| Description: | Easter postcard with a bird, bird's nest and flowers. In the background is a country scene with a river and the moon partially behind clouds. Text on front... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Hand-tinted photo postcard of two beautiful women, with their heads together, holding the receiver of a vintage telephone. They are wearing gowns and have ... |
| Date: | 12 23 1912 |
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| Description: | Christmas postcard of a child on a toboggan. She is wearing a red coat and white mittens, also a white hat with a tassel. Her hair is flying in the wind. T... |
| Date: | 12 25 1908 |
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| Description: | Christmas postcard, with two cats wearing bows around their necks, surrounded by holly. Their paws are on a scroll that reads: "With Best Christmas Wishes.... |
| Date: | 03 23 1907 |
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| Description: | Easter postcard with two rabbits, one inside a hinged and decorated Easter egg, and the other rabbit outside. They are touching noses. The egg and rabbits ... |
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