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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Greeting card collection, circa 1850-1982
Filter: Subject of holidays
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Inside of a holiday card, showing a baby in a cradle with a star holding netting from above. To the right is the text "Best Wishes for A Merry Christmas an... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card printed on a sheet of copper. It has a scene of log buildings, a stockade fence, and woods in the background. Above is the text "Michigan Copp... |
| 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: | Inside of holiday card depicting a family tree. The family photographs are positioned over a pine tree covered with snow. At the bottom is a cartoon of San... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A die cut holiday card with a red and white mitten clasping a green and white mitten. The background is gray with holly on the left and a poinsettia on the... |
| 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a frog, wearing a red and black checked suit and a bow tie, dancing on a pine branch. He has one candy cane in his mouth and one in his o... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with two carolers, one violin player and a woman carrying a boar's head on a platter. In the background is a decorative gold fence over black.... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a stylish woman taking a letter from her Scottie dog's mouth. She is wearing a red dress with a white bow and cuffs, and black high heels... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday card featuring Carl Marty of the Northernaire Resort in Three Lakes, Wisconsin. He is famous for his hospitality and his "animal frien... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card that reads: "The American Way." Dark blue paper, with a diagonal metallic silver bar which has the text "American" inside of it. On either sid... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Holiday card showing four African Americans, two men and two women, sliding down a hill on a sled. More snow-covered hills are visible in the background. T... |
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| Description: | Holiday card with an African American woman dancing with Santa Claus. She is wearing a green mini-dress with a belt, and red go-go boots. A phonograph and ... |
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| Description: | Hand-painted holiday card of three African American children eating watermelon. One girl sits on the ground, a boy has a watermelon in his lap, and the sec... |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday card of an African American family posed over an image of three dimensional letters that read: "NOEL." The letters are slanting from u... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from the "Chemical Warfare Service, United States Army, Edgewood Arsenal, MD. December 25th, 1918." Their logo appears above the text. The Ame... |
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| Description: | Holiday card from Senator Ted Kennedy and Mrs. Joan Kennedy. Front of card reads: "Merry Christmas" and has a cutout with a gold foil border which shows th... |
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| Description: | Holiday card of an African American child standing next to a snowman. The child is wearing a jacket, snow pants, boots, stocking cap and earmuffs. The snow... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from Senator Herb Kohl. The front of the card reads: "Season's Greetings from Senator Herb Kohl" and has the state of Wisconsin in the middle.... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Holiday card showing the Civil Rights March on Selma, Alabama, in 1965. The Christmas star shines overhead and has glitter on it. The card has a red border... |
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