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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Greeting card collection, circa 1850-1982
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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard of Santa Claus, wearing the traditional red suit and hat with white fur trim, waving to two children. Santa has a basket of toys and dolls... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with Santa Claus at the bedside of a child, handing out toys. There are dolls, a bear, a badminton racket and bird, ball and a toy horse. ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Holiday card featuring a boy and his dog. The boy is wearing a white and blue sailor suit. The dog is sitting up and begging with a sprig of holly in his m... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of Santa Claus knocking on a door in a hall with a brick floor. He is wearing a brown coat and hood, with a sack of toys on his back, a basket... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with two clasped hands over foliage and flowers. Image is inside of a black border. The text reads: "For auld lang syne, A merry Christmas To ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard of a boy and a girl, arm in arm. He is dressed in a green outfit with a green cloak with a gold lining, gold gloves and a green hat. She i... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard of a young girl holding a bouquet of violets and surrounded by sprigs of holly. She is wearing an off-the-shoulder dress with a pink bow. ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard of Santa Claus loading his sleigh. A single white horse is hitched to the sleigh and is eating out of a nosebag. There is a gold bell on t... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with two wild roses tied with a blue ribbon. Added at the bottom in glitter is the text: "Christmas Greetings from Pardeeville." Chromolit... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with holly, mistletoe and berries. Added on the right in glitter is the text: "Christmas Greetings from Fox Lake Wis." Chromolithograph. I... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with a little girl asleep in bed. Santa Claus is gazing at her with a doll in his left hand. He has a sack of toys on his back and is wear... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with a girl peering through a wreath of holly. Her coat, mittens, hat and boots are light blue. She has a fur muff with holly in it hangin... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with a brown terrier dog standing upright on his back feet. He is holding a dead turkey by the feet in his left paw and a basket of dead t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with an ornate design of two square frames, filled with Santa on the left and a girl on the right, and an oval frame in the middle filled ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with Santa Claus to the left of a blazing brick fireplace with three stockings hanging from the mantle. He is holding a stocking in his le... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with Santa Claus peering over the top of the roof of a house, and a chimney. He is wearing a red coat and hat with brown fur trim. Above h... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with Santa Claus, surrounded by pine boughs and candles, spilling toys and treats out of his sack. He is wearing a brown coat, mittens and... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with Santa Claus sledding down a snow-covered hill on a toboggan with a sack of toys on his back. He is wearing his traditional red hat wi... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with a white and metallic gold border depicting Santa Claus handing a doll to a girl as a boy is looking on from the background. The child... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Holiday "check." It has an ornate green and black border with the text "A Merry Christmas," "A Happy New Year" and "With the Season's Greetings" in it. A w... |
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