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| Date: | 11 04 1931 |
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| 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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| 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... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Two holiday cards with European Robins. Robins are a symbol of Christmas in Great Britain. Caption reads: "A merry christmas." Chromolithograph. Images an... |
| 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: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Holiday card designed to look like a subpoena. The outside has a drawing of an old fashioned English judge. Below is the text, "Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Hear Ye, ... |
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| Description: | Holiday card from Warren P. Knowles, Governor of Wisconsin, 1965-1971. The front of the card has a color image of the Wisconsin governor's mansion glued o... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card depicting Santa Claus riding a kangaroo. The kangaroo has a saddle and bridle, and Santa is wearing his traditional red suit and hat with whit... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a soldier walking while carrying a child who is waving an American flag. The soldier is wearing a uniform and a campaign hat. Two childre... |
| Date: | 12 1943 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn holiday card of a woman soldier in front of McCloskey General Hospital. She is in uniform and is saluting. There are cacti (cactus) in the foreg... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with the image of a woman sitting on a cushioned wooden bench, gazing at her wedding ring. She is wearing a long blue dress. A gray ce... |
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| Description: | Ink drawing of a couple standing and embracing. The woman is laughing while reaching with one hand into the man's jacket pocket. There is a small kerosene ... |
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| Description: | Four-fold, copy art birthday card with a photograph of a cat on the front cover, with the caption: "Wishing You 9 Lives." Inside spread of a photograph of ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A Christmas greeting postcard with an illustration of a winter scene of a woman standing in the snow near a bridge, framed by a wreath of holly and berries... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A Christmas greeting card with gold border and fringe on three sides. Flowers, berries and ferns are the background to the gold text which reads, "Merry Ch... |
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| Description: | Holiday greeting card with a young girl holding a basket, intertwined with the letter "S" in gold ink, and sprigs of holly and berries. The card has blue f... |
| Date: | 12 31 1912 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with a an illustration of a branch of Poinsettia. In the upper right corner in red ink, "A Happy New Year." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Easter postcard with a well-dressed rooster, with arms instead of wings, carrying a cane and an Easter Egg on a ribbon. He is wearing a jacket with a pussy... |
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