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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
Filter: Subject of greeting cards
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with a bear standing in the center. He has his paws folded over his tummy. On his right is a jar of honey and on his left is a honeyco... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card of a large red heart, with a man sitting in a chair over it. His chin is resting in his right hand, and he appears to be in despair. H... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with four die cut pieces held together with two cords. The top piece is a girl wearing a lavender dress and ballet slippers. She is ho... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with three layers. The bottom layer is a large blue and white butterfly, and in the lower right is glued a banner with the text: "Cupi... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with a boy pumping water while a girl is scrubbing a heart in a tub. He is wearing a blue outfit and she is wearing a lacy blouse. A s... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card featuring Clarabell, a Disney character. She is wearing a blue dress with a pink sash, pink gloves and black high heels. She is holdin... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day "secret pal" card with a peach on the front, and a cake and plum on the inside (all shown). The peach has long eyelashes, red lipstick and ... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card of a Cupid with red, curly hair, dressed in pink, holding two white birds. His wings are blue and his arrow quiver is shaped like a he... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Ornaments from a "Whitney's Valentine Material" kit. These were combined with the "folders" (cards) and paper lace to create personalized Valentine's Day c... |
| Date: | 02 11 1927 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card in the shape of a heart with a red background and a white heart border design around the edges. In the center is a drawing of a man ho... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Child's Valentine's Day card with a boy dressed in blue shorts and a blue and green striped shirt. He has his left hand on his heart which is beating, indi... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of a man and a woman standing on either side of a musical hand cart. They are in front of an industrial building with a large window, and snow... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with the "family tree" of D.C. III (David Clark Everest) and Rita Everest, on the front, and a map of the U.S.A. on the inside showing the two... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a military theme. The card has a red, white, blue and embossed border. In the center is a "V" made of a red, white and blue ribbon on the... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card made of four pieces. The main piece is of a large shell boat pulled by two swans on a pond filled with water lilies. A cutout of a lar... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day postcard of a lady holding a heart, being "held up" by two "western-themed" Cupids holding pistols. She is wearing a pink and floral print ... |
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