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| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with Santa Claus winking. He is wearing his traditional red hat with white trim and a bell. The word "Cheerio!" is made out of candy canes and... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with Santa Claus playing a piano. The background is black with a red border, and musical notes of various colors as well as the names of numer... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of a die cut head of Santa Claus and a gold edged, embossed, black, square card. There is a hole at the top of both pieces with a tasseled str... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with Santa Claus holding a candy cane, surrounded by many symbols of the season: angels, stars, candles, birds, stockings, ornaments, gifts, b... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a leaping reindeer on it. He has a bow with bells around his neck. His extensive antlers have an assortment of ornaments and garland hang... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with three couples of animals dancing; two bears, a seal and a beaver, a fox and a rabbit. They are on a snowbank overlooking the sea with the... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of Santa Claus knocking on a door in a hall with a brick floor. He is wearing a brown coat and hood, with a sack of toys on his back, a basket... |
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| Description: | Christmas card from Alger Hiss to James Aronson. The front of card is a page from the Missale Pataviense, Vienna, 1512. Inside reads: "Happy New Year to Ji... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with the image of a bell. Inside is a scene of a lake with a cottage on the shore. There is a boat on the lake and a church on the opposite sh... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with two Boston Terriers as radio announcers in front of microphones. The call letters on the microphones are "WLW" and "WSAI." On the inside ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from Chappell's Ad Dept. The card has seven consecutive panels accordion folded. The front panel shows a bell hanging by a ribbon surrounded b... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Inside of holiday card depicting a family tree. The family photographs are positioned over a pine tree covered with snow. At the bottom is a cartoon of San... |
| 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.... |
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| Description: | Holiday card with an African American woman dancing with Santa Claus. She is wearing a green mini-dress with a belt, and red go-go boots. A phonograph and ... |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday card of an African American family posed over "Merry Christmas" wrapping paper in the background. Holly and bells appear overhead. Eac... |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday card from Marie and Averell Harriman. Mr. Harriman was governor of New York 1955-1958, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1943-1946, ... |
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| Description: | Holiday card from Jane M. Byrne, mayor of Chicago, 1979-1983. The card is a reproduction of a stained glass window with a string attached so it can be hung... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with the Statue of Liberty in the foreground. Four United States warplanes fly overhead and buildings with an American flag appear in the back... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a 10¢ War Stamp Album glued inside. The front of the card shows Uncle Sam's large shoe kicking Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito into space.... |
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