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Tall-tale Postcard: Mammoth Strawberries

Date: 1910
Description: Photomontage of two giant strawberries on a flatbed railroad car. Fields and mountains fill the background. Red text in the upper portion of the image rea...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Group of Giant Strawberries

Date: 1910
Description: Photomontage of a bunch of giant strawberries resting on a flatbed railroad car. Caption reads: "Grown near Augusta, Wis." The side of the car is inscribed...
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Gathering Raspberries at Grant's Point

Date: 1913
Description: Elizabeth Baker and Anne Ashley gathering raspberries and getting milk on the road to Grant's Point on Madeline Island.
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Chippewa Blueberry Pickers

Date: 1910
Description: Men, women and children holding boxes and pails in the forest. Original caption reads: "VI Drive to W.S.; Chippewa blueberry pickers." The photograph is pa...
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A Christmas Card to My Son

Date: 1911
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...
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A Merry Christmas

Date: 1910
Description: Holiday postcard with an ornate design of two square frames, filled with Santa on the left and a girl on the right, and an oval frame in the middle filled ...
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A Merry Christmas Check

Date: 1910
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...
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Christmas Greetings

Date: 1912
Description: Holiday postcard with a metallic gold box across the bottom, and to the right within it are a boy and girl standing, looking at one another. The girl is dr...
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Hearty Christmas Greetings from Chemical Warfare Service

Date: 1918
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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Greetings

Date: 1914
Description: Holiday card of a Native American woman holding a patterned bowl of holly and berries. A blanket is draped over her shoulders, and a red and green headband...
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Merry Christmas

Date: 1918
Description: Holiday card with a young girl looking at herself in the mirror. She is wearing a white dress with a green sash, white stockings, black shoes and a militar...
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Merry Christmas

Date: 1918
Description: Holiday card with the American Eagle, gripping lightening bolts, ribbons and holly in his talons. In the background are clouds and a map of the United Stat...
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Holiday Card with a Military Theme

Date: 1918
Description: Holiday card of a window, looking outward from the inside of a house. On the sill is an American Eagle on a Federal Shield over a swag of holly and ribbon,...
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Christmas Greetings to You in Red Cross Service

Date: 1918
Description: Holiday card with a nurse in uniform peering through a wreath she is holding. The card has a thin red border. The text below reads: "Christmas Greetings to...
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Holiday Greeting, Western Union Telegram

Date: 12 31 1917
Description: Holiday telegram from Western Union Telegram and Cable. The telegram form has a holiday theme. At the top is a banner with the text "Holiday Greeting" and ...
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Strawberry Time

Date: 1913
Description: A group of finely dressed men and women posing in a strawberry field. There are buildings in the background. The people are identified in a handwritten ca...
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Gathering Blueberries

Date: 1911
Description: The boys gathering wild blueberries in the woods.
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Indian Woman with Blueberries

Date: 1910
Description: An Indian woman standing on rocks holding two containers of blueberries.
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Selling Blueberries

Date: 1910
Description: Carl standing next to an Indian woman who is selling blueberries to The Gang. One of the men is in the foreground. Lac La Croix is in the background.
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Leonore Middleton

Date: 1918
Description: Leonore Middleton posing standing next to a pan of freshly picked strawberries, which are resting on a porch step next to a wooden column on the porch. She...

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