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Santa and Children on a Coffee Advertisement

Date: 1890
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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New Year's Card

Date: 1888
Description: New Year's Day greeting card depicting a boy and girl ice skating.
Poster

Milwaukee Wine Importer Ad

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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...
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Christmas Pudding-Woolson Spice Co.

Date: 1890
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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Cigar Maker Ad

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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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New Year's Business Greeting

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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...
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President & Mrs. Cleveland Trade Card

Date: 1886
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...
Postcard

A Happy New Year

Date: 12 31 1912
Description: Holiday postcard with a an illustration of a branch of Poinsettia. In the upper right corner in red ink, "A Happy New Year."
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A Merry Christmas

Date: 1915
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...
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A Merry Christmas

Date: 1915
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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Friendship Greetings

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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...
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Good Luck for Christmas

Date: 1907
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...
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Ladies Picking Cherry Blossoms

Date: 1910
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...
Postcard

A Happy New Year

Date: 12 29 1914
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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Happy Easter

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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...
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Awaiting Instructions

Date: 1917
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 ...
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Tobogganing at Christmastime

Date: 12 23 1912
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...
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With Best Christmas Wishes

Date: 12 25 1908
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....
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All Joy to You This Eastertide

Date: 03 23 1907
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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Merry Christmas and Bright New Year

Date: 12 31 1908
Description: Christmas and New Years postcard with a Bluebird and holly on a metallic gold background. The text: "To Wish you a merry Christmas and a bright New Year" i...

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