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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Advertising greeting card which reads "Handsome Christmas Card in Every package of Lion Coffee, November 5 to Christmas Day." The card depicts Santa Claus ... |
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| Description: | Chromolithographed advertising poster of the Herman Toser Co., of Milwaukee, importers of wines and liquors. The poster depicts a young Italian woman in tr... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Chromolithographed card issued by the Woolson Spice Co. to present Christmas greetings to its customers. The card depicts children around a Christmas tree,... |
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| Description: | Trade card of H. Rolfs Cigar Manufacturing Co. of Milwaukee advertising their Golden Horn cigars. The card depicts a cartoon-like drummer with the caption:... |
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| Description: | "It Almost Broke Her Up." One of a series of satiric trade cards issued by the Arbuckle's Aroisa Coffee Co. This incident is borrowed from "Texas Siftings,... |
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| Description: | Floral chromolithographed trade card from C.H. Holst, New Holstein, Wisconsin, that wished a Happy New Year to its customers. The card is part of a collec... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | The marriage of bachelor President Grover Cleveland to Frances Folsom, his 21-year old ward, in 1886 captured the nation's romantic imagination, a sentimen... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Die cut holiday card in the shape of a bell with a string attached at top as an advertisement for the Bank of Madison to "Join the Christmas Club" so you c... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Holiday card, red ink on light brown, speckled and textured cover paper. The text appears to be referring to the economic hard times during the presidency ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from Chappell's Ad Dept. The card has seven consecutive panels accordion folded. The front panel shows a bell hanging by a ribbon surrounded b... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Eight page holiday card. The inside four pages are shorter and narrower, jogged to the top. Four views are shown. On the front is a "Boss," sitting at his ... |
| Date: | 02 12 1927 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card of a girl in a pink polka dot dress with a white and yellow apron. She is bending forward and is holding an actual stick of Black Jack... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card of a large heart with a "check" on top of it. At the top of the heart is the text: "A Wealth of Love," and at the bottom is: "Just Che... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card of a tree in a pot with hearts on the branches. A sign on the upper right reads: "A Valentine MONEY TREE For You." There are ten slots... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A Christmas greeting card with an illustration of a woman at a market stall with wreaths and greenery. Inside the stall is the vendor. The colors are chrom... |
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