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Christmas Card Display

Date: 11
Description: Christmas card display at F.W. Woolworth Co,, 1 East Main Street, with sign that reads: "Personalize your Christmas cards with Parker's Colored Quink." The...
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Antique Christmas Cards

Date: 11 04 1931
Description: Four antique Christmas cards. At the top left is a copper engraved robin card, 1840. Top right is a harp and rose greeting card hand-painted in 1800. Lower...
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Monona Grove High School Students

Date: 12 10 1956
Description: Monona Grove High School students, David Thuesen and Gene Kleinsmith, making Christmas decorations and cards.
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Family with Christmas Table Decorations

Date: 12 20 1955
Description: Mrs. Philip Falk with daughter Carol, displaying their Christmas table centerpiece made by Mrs. Falk which was inspired by the family Christmas card.
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Junior Red Cross Workers

Date: 07 29 1945
Description: Eight Junior Red Cross young children (Mary Schaaf, Josephine Federicks, Nancy Fowlkes, Maralyn Savage, Bonnie Anderson, Peggy Huiskamp, Ruth Mary Noland, ...
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J. Robert Taylor Christmas Card

Date: 1914
Description: A Christmas card with oval family portraits of (from top left clockwise) Alma Reinhardt-Taylor, Ellen Taylor-Higgins, Donna Taylor-Adams, Fred Taylor, and ...
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Frank and Delia King's Christmas Card

Date: 1939
Description: A Christmas card in the form of a stained glass window featuring Delia and Frank King as Mary and Joseph. The card reads, "Merry Christmas and Happy New Ye...
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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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Zor Shriner Auxiliary Christmas Fund Raiser

Date: 10 31 1950
Description: The Zor Shriner Auxiliary Christmas and greeting card project is one of the best fund raising activities to benefit Shriners' hospitals for crippled childr...
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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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Washington Grain Christmas Postcard

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Description: Postcard composite with Christmas illustrations and a photograph of a storeroom filled with sacks of grain. Text reads: "A Merry Christmas," "Greetings Fro...
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Christmas Card with Scene of Fort Ruins

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Description: A Christmas Card with two views. The on on the left is featuring an image of a girl sledding while wearing winter gear, and on the right is a photograph of...
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Mail Early for Christmas

Date: 12 04 1958
Description: Wisconsin State Journal Editor Roy L. Matson buys stamps from Charles Smythe, wholesale stamp clerk, while Postmaster John F. Whitmore waits his turn. They...
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Christmas Mail

Date: 12 17 1958
Description: Postal workers deal with a shipment of Christmas mail that was "arriving by the roomful and the ton." Workers are, left to right: William Borjinkhof, John...

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