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| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of three men and three woman dancing. They are dressed in European dancing costumes. Holly and bells hang overhead, and a small Christmas tree... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Holiday card for the Bancroft Dairy Company in Madison, Wisconsin. The card is folded so that as you open each panel, you see a new scene. Many different e... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of a silhouette of Santa Claus with a basket of toys and holding a lantern, walking towards a house, snow and trees. Below is the text "Merry ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a woman carrying a boar's head on a platter decorated with holly, and a child following. The background is black, with light coming from ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a couple dressed in winter coats. The woman is wearing a fur coat, muff, and a fur and ribbon trimmed bonnet. He is wearing a scarf and t... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a stylized man and woman singing. They are sharing a songbook. He is wearing a top hat, high collar and tie. She is wearing a bonnet and ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a little girl dressed in panties and a red polka dot hair bow, sitting on a giant ice cube, sitting in the snow. She is holding a holiday... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with Santa Claus winking. He is wearing his traditional red hat with white trim and a bell. The word "Cheerio!" is made out of candy canes and... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a winter nighttime landscape. At the bottom half of the card is a snow-covered house with two pine trees. The roof of a second house is i... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with man sitting in an easy chair in front of a fireplace. He is smoking a pipe and reading a book. There is a model sailing ship on the mantl... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Holiday card created by Wisconsin artist Alfred A. Sessler. The image is of Santa Claus (in the Sessler style) holding a bag of snow in one hand and a smal... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with Santa Claus playing a piano. The background is black with a red border, and musical notes of various colors as well as the names of numer... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of a trainload of skiers with their skis on their way to the slopes. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of the Sister Bay lakeshore. Three figures are on the shore. Two boathouses, a covered boat, a pier, and two upright boats are in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with the "family tree" of D.C. III (David Clark Everest) and Rita Everest, on the front, and a map of the U.S.A. on the inside showing the two... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a scene of a village in New Mexico. Adobe dwellings with hills, fences, a ladder, trees and a burro can be seen in the background. Six fi... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of a die cut head of Santa Claus and a gold edged, embossed, black, square card. There is a hole at the top of both pieces with a tasseled str... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | The inside of a holiday card. It shows the head of the company, D.C. (Clark) Everest, sitting at his desk. Four green frames across the top show different ... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with Santa Claus holding a candy cane, surrounded by many symbols of the season: angels, stars, candles, birds, stockings, ornaments, gifts, b... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday greeting card of a family posed on their staircase. A father, mother, two daughters and one son are pictured. At top is the text "Gree... |
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