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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Holiday card. In the center are 4 choir girls singing, holding hymnals, and one girl playing the violin. They are all wearing white robes. In the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with ribbons, flowers and fruit. On the ribbon are the words: "A Merry Christmas!" Chromolithograph. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from a parent to a son. It has a gold and brown outer border, with the middle border made of holly and the inner border of gold. Within the in... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with shepherds holding crooks and their sheep in the hills under the Christmas star. The text "Christmas Greetings" appears at the bottom. Let... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a branch of pink and red berries and green leaves over a metallic silver disc. The word "Greetings" appears below. Letterpress. |
| 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: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a nautical theme. An open porthole is centered inside a border made of rope with knots in the corners. An anchor is tied to the rope end.... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Holiday card made out of wallpaper. Ivy and berries frame the message which reads: "With a paper shortage at Christmastime, Sort of makes one cross and sur... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Die cut holiday card. Front is dark blue, and four die cut areas allow red and white stripes on the inside of the card to show through to create the letter... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of the history of the State of Wisconsin, 1848-1948. Shows a map of Wisconsin with many historical and themed elements. Image was created by w... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from an employee to their employer. On a white sheet of paper with holly on it, with a green background. The text reads: "Merry Christmas to a... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with the figure of a woman, in a blouse and skirt, holding a wreath over her head with her left hand. She is barefoot. The text on the lower r... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with the Christ child in a manger surrounded by four praying children, each of a different race, Native American, African American, Caucasian ... |
| 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: | 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: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of a Christmas tree in a pot with a blue bow on it. The image is within a metallic gold border. Outside the border is gold holly with red berr... |
| 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: | 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... |
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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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