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Hallmark Greeting Card Display

Date: 12 06 1945
Description: A display of Hallmark greeting cards, including a Life magazine article featuring Hallmark greeting cards, at an unidentified drug store in the Renn...
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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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Hudson Park Pharmacy

Date: 12 29 1947
Description: Hudson Park Pharmacy, 2337 Atwood Avenue, interior view of soda fountain, with a display of greeting cards and booths, and a poster for "Elsie" Borden's Ic...
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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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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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Robert "Bob" Mahnke Celebrates Eightieth Birthday

Date: 03 17 1951
Description: Robert "Bob" Mahnke of 1155 Williamson Street admires a special birthday card signed by 127 of his fellow employees at the Gisholt Machine Company, where h...
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Emerson Grade School Sketch Club

Date: 03 19 1951
Description: Members of the Emerson Grade School Sketch Club, an after-school group, are pictured preparing a giant "Happy Easter" card for the children at the Orthoped...
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Russell E. Frost Family

Date: 12 01 1951
Description: Gorup portrait of the Russell E. Frost family seated in a ice cream booth, eating a variety of frozen confections. Left to right: Sue Frost; Jack Frost; Be...
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Blessed Holiday Season

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Description: Photographic holiday card from Governor and Mrs. Martin Schreiber and family, governor of Wisconsin 1977-1979. The front of the card is an image of the fam...
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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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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: People waiting in line to mail their letters, packages and parcels in the lobby of the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue. A woman is standing at t...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal employee, Harry Bunbury, receiving bundles of Christmas cards from inside the letter window at the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue. Bundl...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal worker, Del Winters, working at a pouch rack, where mail is sorted prior to going out of the city. He is in the back of the United States Post Offic...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal worker, Eugene Hathaway, emptying a mail bag of letters onto a table for sorting crews at the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue.
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal workers, George Mader, Jr. (left) and Russell Anderson, are standing on the back of a truck and unloading a small part of a day's incoming (to Madis...
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Family Posing in Front of Fireplace

Date: 12 11 1954
Description: A couple with their young daughter posing in front of a home fireplace to take a photograph for their Christmas Card.
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Local Homemakers Making Holiday Preparations

Date: 12 02 1958
Description: Florence Tomlinson with a display of her homemade Christmas cards.
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Christmas Card Images for the Edwin Stein Family

Date: 12 15 1958
Description: Santa on a reindeer rocking horse.
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Christmas Card Images for the Edwin Stein Family

Date: 12 15 1958
Description: Composite photograph of Jimmy and Laurie Stein on a rocking horse.

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