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Easter Lily Display

Date: 04 14 1927
Description: Display of Easter Lilies at the University Floral Company, located at 723 University Avenue.
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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...
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Holiday Benefit Dance

Date: 12 26 1948
Description: Three couples in front of two Christmas trees at the holiday benefit dance held at the Turner Hall. The seated girls are, from left, Patricia Albrecht, Jul...
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Holiday Benefit Dance

Date: 12 27 1948
Description: Two couples at the punch bowl during the holiday benefit dance at the Turner Hall. From left are Gail Snyder, Footville; John Fox, Madison; Margot Schmidt,...
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J. Edward O'Connell with Green Carnations

Date: 03 14 1952
Description: J. Edward O'Connell, an assistant cashier at First National Bank, with some green carnations. He traditionally hands out green carnations to one hundred fi...
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Rentschler's Greenhouse Easter Lilies

Date: 04 11 1952
Description: Rentschler's Greenhouse employee, Otto Wagner, holds Harold Kautzer, Jr., a 3-year-old neighborhood boy, to see and smell the easter lilies grown there.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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The Seasons Greetings

Date: 1932
Description: Holiday card of a woman, a reindeer and various foliage and flowers inside an ornate border. The illustration is done in the medieval style. At the foot is...
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Christmas Greetings from Florida

Date: 1943
Description: Holiday card with two flamingos standing in a stream with water lilies. Palm trees are on the banks. The right edge is die cut.
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Christmas Greetings

Date: 1942
Description: Holiday card printed on a paper towel. The text reads: "Christmas Greetings, I couldn't afford a Christmas card so ---- my wish with cheer to spare I've pr...
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Nativity Scene

Date: 1981
Description: Holiday card with the Christ child in a manger surrounded by four praying children, each of a different race, Native American, African American, Caucasian ...
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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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May True Love Light Your Christmas Path

Date: 1930
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...
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Flowers I Bring, With Hope That All, Fair Christmas Joys, On Thee May Fall

Date: 1930
Description: Two-sided holiday card with blue fringe all around the edges. The front has a young girl holding cream colored roses. She is wearing a white dress with a r...
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Best Wishes

Date: 1930
Description: Inside of a holiday card, showing a baby in a cradle with a star holding netting from above. To the right is the text "Best Wishes for A Merry Christmas an...
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Ever Thine

Date: 1840
Description: Valentine's Day card with flowers and gold and white flourishes. Text at bottom reads: "Ever Thine." It has been mounted to a piece of paper and a silhouet...
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Let the Smiles of Youth Appearing

Date: 1855
Description: Valentine's Day card with a cornucopia filled with flowers and foliage. On the edge of the mouth it reads: "Let the Smiles of Youth Appearing." Music notat...

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