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| Description: | Color photographic holiday card from Governor and Mrs. Earl and family, governor of Wisconsin, 1983-1987. To the right it reads: "Happy Holidays" with "The... |
| Date: | 12 20 1879 |
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| Description: | A program for a Christmas event at Toechter Institut. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from Chappell's Ad Dept. The card has seven consecutive panels accordion folded. The front panel shows a bell hanging by a ribbon surrounded b... |
| Date: | 11 05 1963 |
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| Description: | A young girl handles a stuffed toy clown during the Milwaukee-Downer seminary alumnae holiday bazaar. |
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| Description: | Thanksgiving dinner between Native Americans and early Pilgrim settlers in America. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a crowd gathered in Mount Vernon on Arbor Day. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with flowers and butterflies. Caption reads: "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." Chromolithograph. |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the Peoples' New Year's Party at the Langston Huges [sic] Center. Includes the motto "Same struggle — same fight." |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a branch of pink and red berries and green leaves over a metallic silver disc. The word "Greetings" appears below. Letterpress. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with printed wood grain. A box in the center with a white, brown and red border reads: "greetings" with a red star. |
| Date: | 06 27 1839 |
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| Description: | Invitation for Darwin Clark to the Independence Ball on the 4th of July, 1839 at the American Hotel. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | New Year's Day greeting card depicting a boy and girl ice skating. |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a smiling woman wearing a large hat decorated with artificial Easter bunnies, a live duck, and artificial Easter basket grass. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The brother of Flora van Brink Hony Bader (nee Melkman), Harry Melkman, and a friend, are dressed up for Purim party; Amsterdam. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of three candles with two decorative halos behind them. Metallic silver frame. Text in lower right corner reads: "Glad Tidings." Printed in re... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a line drawing of just the head of a child, possibly a cherub, with the word "PEACE" in the background. Below it says "Christmas 1918." L... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a sawmill and the distant town in the background. Stacks of logs are in the lumberyard. Along the bottom is a New Year's greeting in Germa... |
| Date: | 01 01 1858 |
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| Description: | Printed invitation to a New Year's Ball given at Weeden's Hotel in Neenah with music provided by Shattuck's Cotillion Band. The invitation is printed on e... |
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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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