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Joe McCarthy Christmas Greeting

Date: 12 1954
Description: The 1954 Christmas card of Jeanne and Joseph R. McCarthy, mailed at about the time he was censured by the Senate. Handwritten on the inside the card says,...
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Zilphia Horton Leading Songs

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Description: Zilphia Horton leading singing at CIO School during Holiday season. At the table on the right, Myles Horton, Mike Ross, Tom Ludwig, and Joyce Mitchell.
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Rosa Parks at Clinton Students Gathering

Date: 1956
Description: Rosa Parks attending a Highlander Christmas vacation event for Clinton Black High School Students, the first integrated in the South.
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Cub Scout Party

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Description: Santa Claus handing out presents at a Christmas party for Wisconsin Rapids Cub Scouts.
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Immigrants with Christmas Tree

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Description: A group of immigrants pose in front of a tall Christmas tree at Ellis Island.
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Family Around Christmas Tree

Date: 1850
Description: An engraving depicting a formally dressed family gathered around a Christmas tree, which is lit with candles.
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Family Around Christmas Tree

Date: 1900
Description: A formally dressed family pose around a Christmas tree, probably in their living room. A man is sitting at a piano on the left side, with his hand resting ...
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Ruth and Jim Doyle Christmas Card

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Description: Christmas card sent by Ruth and James E. Doyle Sr. Although undated, the photograph on the card was taken before the birth of their fourth child. The littl...
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Union Christmas Party

Date: 1959
Description: Four members of an unidentified local in United Packinghouse Workers of America District 1 (Burette King, Sidney Coleman, Aljay Williams, and Joseph Kuzma)...
Manuscript

Angry Letter

Date: 1974
Description: Angry letter written to Women for a Peaceful Christmas in opposition to their Christmas shopping boycott, signed "A small business owner."
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Christmas Greeting Card

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Description: Christmas greeting card depicting the Benton-Franklin Inter-county bridge over the Columbia River connecting Kennewick and Pasco, Washington. A riverboat a...
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Christmas Greeting Card

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Description: A Christmas greeting card with a view of the state capitol inset and framed on the page. Surrounding the picture are pine, holly, candles and text: "Merry...
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Christmas Greeting Card

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Description: A Christmas greeting card featuring a view of the city, including a bridge over the Clark Fork river, numerous industrial-style buildings, and telephone po...
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Christmas Greeting Card

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Description: Christmas greeting card featuring a view of a mining town with smokestacks, gravel piles, houses, large buildings and distant mountains. Surrounding the ph...
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Christmas Greeting Card

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Description: Christmas greeting card or postcard with view of Main Street. Business signs read: "Hotel National," "National Bar," "McIntosh Pianos" and "Opera House." T...
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Front Street Greeting Card

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Description: Christmas greeting card or postcard with view of Front Street. Business signs read: "First National Bank," "John Wernecke Merchant Tailor," "Moore's," "Sal...
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Christmas Greetings from Idaho

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Description: A Christmas greeting card with a view of the Lapwai Native American encampment in Idaho. A number of tepees are circled around a large tent. Caption at top...
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YWCA Lounge at Christmas

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Description: A view of the YWCA lounge at Christmas. Four women and a dog sit in front of an ornate fireplace. A large Christmas tree stands to the left of the fireplac...
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Children's Nativity Scene

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Description: Children acting in a living nativity scene at St. Michael's Home. The three children represent an angel, Joseph, and Mary, and are gathered around a manger...
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Children's Nativity Scene

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Description: Children acting in a live nativity scene at St. Michael's Home. The five children represent the three wise men, and Joseph, and Mary. They are gathered aro...

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