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Valentine

Date: 
Description: Watercolor valentine written by a young man and given to one of the daughters of Louis Dousman, probably Violet or Virginia.
Postcard

Evergreen Park Cottage Sanatorium

Date: 1905
Description: The Evergreen Park Cottage Sanatorium, where in 1903 Dr. W.B. Hopkins opened the first tuberculosis sanatorium in Wisconsin. Financial problems caused the ...
Postcard

A Happy Christmas

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with Santa Claus with a walking stick, carrying a sack and holding a Christmas tree on his shoulder. He is in front of a snow-covered hous...
Print

New Year's Card

Date: 1888
Description: New Year's Day greeting card depicting a boy and girl ice skating.
Print

New Year's Business Greeting

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Description: Floral chromolithographed trade card from C.H. Holst, New Holstein, Wisconsin, that wished a Happy New Year to its customers. The card is part of a collec...
Photograph

Christmas Card with Scene of Fort Ruins

Date: 
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...
Print

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Date: 1877
Description: Holiday card with flowers and butterflies. Caption reads: "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." Chromolithograph.
Print

May Christmas Be Merry

Date: 1875
Description: Round, die cut holiday card, with an ornate design on a metallic finish as the background. A rectangular framed image depicting a man walking with a staff ...
Drawing

A Merry Xmas

Date: 1881
Description: A black and silver, hand-drawn, pen and ink holiday card with an Asian theme. A woman and a young man are facing each other, and a dried flower and sprig o...
Print

Kindly Thoughts and Good Wishes For Christmas and the New Year

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card of a man loading Christmas trees on a sled drawn by two horses. A dog runs in front of them. The sun is setting over a lake or pond with trees...
Print

Christmas Greeting

Date: 1890
Description: Holiday card, hand-painted poinsettias over a letterpress printed greeting. The text reads: "Christmas Greeting. I am thinking of you today because it is C...
Postcard

New Year Greetings

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard of a family in a car. It is decorated with flowers, foliage and ribbons. The parents are inside the car, and the son is sitting on the hoo...
Postcard

Christmas Greetings

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard of Santa Claus with a walking stick, and a little girl. Santa is wearing a long red fur-trimmed coat and a red hat, and is carrying a sack...
Postcard

My Dear Little Friend

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard of holly with Santa inside of an oval gold border. He is wearing a red coat, green mittens, a fur hat and has a basket filled with toys on...
Painting

Christmas Greetings and All Good Wishes For the New Year

Date: 1910
Description: Hand oil painted holiday card on wood. The scene is a seashore with foliage and rocks, two houses in the distance, and a snow-covered mountain in the backg...
Postcard

A Merry Christmas

Date: 1910
Description: Holiday postcard showing Santa Claus behind the steering wheel of his motorized sleigh. Holly fills the front and pine boughs fill the back. He is wearing ...
Postcard

A Merry Christmas

Date: 1908
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...
Postcard

A Bright and Happy Christmas to You

Date: 1910
Description: Holiday postcard of two children, one with blonde hair and one with brunette hair. They are in bed wearing their pajamas while emptying their Christmas st...
Print

A Christmas Card to My Son

Date: 1911
Description: Holiday card from a parent to a son. It has a gold and brown outer border, with the middle border made of holly and the inner border of gold. Within the in...
Postcard

A Merry Christmas to All

Date: 1912
Description: Holiday postcard of Santa Claus inside of an upside down horseshoe. He has his finger alongside his nose and is wearing a red suit and hat with blue trim. ...

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