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| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Cover of "The Chicago Seed," an underground newspaper, featuring Santa Claus crucified on a dollar sign. The landscape below is made from collaged advertis... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Rosa Parks attending a Highlander Christmas vacation event for Clinton Black High School Students, the first integrated in the South. |
| Date: | 12 21 1951 |
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| Description: | The annual children's Christmas Party sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers local 42 in East St. Louis. With Santa Claus is local president John Condeli... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Four members of an unidentified local in United Packinghouse Workers of America District 1 (Burette King, Sidney Coleman, Aljay Williams, and Joseph Kuzma)... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Journalist Robert S. Allen, center, in military uniform, poses with the staff of the "Wisconsin State Journal". A graduate of the Wisconsin Journalism Scho... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group gathered in the gymnasium of the Woldale Rural School for a Christmas "hobo" party. Attendees are dressed as "hobos." The original caption notes that... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard of Santa Claus and one of his reindeer encircled by a collar studded with holly, and jingle bells that have smiling faces on them. Santa i... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a man lounging in a easy chair. He is holding a cigarette in a holder in his left hand and a cocktail in his right. He is wearing a smoki... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from the Committee to Defend the Conspiracy. The front is a picture of seven defendants that were under indictment for criminal conspiracy dur... |
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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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| Description: | Holiday card of an African American child standing next to a snowman. The child is wearing a jacket, snow pants, boots, stocking cap and earmuffs. The snow... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Holiday card showing the Civil Rights March on Selma, Alabama, in 1965. The Christmas star shines overhead and has glitter on it. The card has a red border... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of members of the family of Ferdinand Hotz posed in front of the Christmas tree in the Hotz home. They are, standing in the back, left to ri... |
| Date: | 12 25 1943 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Dickey Chapelle (back left), her husband Tony Chapelle (back center), her brother Bob Meyer (back right), and her parents Paul Meyer a... |
| Date: | 12 1958 |
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| Description: | Two male employees of Gisholt Machine Company advertise an upcoming holiday party at 1540 Morrison Street. One of the them, formally dressed in suit and ti... |
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| Description: | Composite of two photographic images depicting Sid flying through the air on snow skis, which have run into a huge rock. The tips of the skis have broken o... |
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| Description: | Composite of photographs and hand-drawn elements with text for a humorous Christmas card. Sid is depicted pulling dissected pieces of himself together. He ... |
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