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| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Mary E. Smith, wife of Dr. Joseph Smith, arranges flowers for the holidays. |
| Date: | 04 14 1927 |
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| Description: | Display of Easter Lilies at the University Floral Company, located at 723 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with flowers and butterflies. Caption reads: "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." Chromolithograph. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| 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. |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 14 1952 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with a flower and large leaf. A verse is printed on the leaf. It reads: "Vainly shall we list for voices, made by absence doubly dear,... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day postcard of a basket of Forget Me Not flowers with a blue bow. A dachshund is peering out of the flowers. At the top is the text: "I Love b... |
| Date: | 04 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Faye Jorgensen is admiring the tall stems and white blossoms of the traditional Easter lily inside a greenhouse. |
| Date: | 04 11 1952 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| 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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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with the image of a zebra, wearing a pink bow around its neck and tail, and a flower in its mouth. More flowers and foliage appear in ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard combining wild roses, pine branches, holly and a scene of a church in the snow. The scene is in the lower right, the background is gold an... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Easter postcard with two yellow chicks in a nest surrounded by Forget Me Nots. The nest is on the grass and a sprig of Pussy Willows is behind them. Text o... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card for Mother. A heart made of lace and roses surround a die cut heart that allows a heart on the inside to show through. More roses appe... |
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