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| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card of a soda fountain with two girls seated on stools in front of the counter and a soda jerk behind. Two puppies are on the floor near t... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Valentine created using a "Whitney's Valentine Material" kit. The "folder" (card) has a house in the country surrounded by flowers. Over that paper lace is... |
| Date: | 02 10 1965 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with the image of an elephant. She is wearing a red hat with a pink bow and is standing up on her back legs. A red heart in the upper ... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Child's Valentine's Day card with a boy and a girl. He is wearing shorts, jacket, eyeglasses, and a graduation cap. He holds a slate in one hand with the t... |
| Date: | 12 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Menu for the 1945 Christmas dinner on the U.S.S. Wisconsin in the form of a holiday greeting card, with a profile of a Santa head in which the silho... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant governor Patrick J. Lucey stands in front of a fireplace with his hands behind his back. To the right are his two sons, Paul and David. To the l... |
| Date: | 12 06 1982 |
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| Description: | Custom holiday card for the entertainer Liberace. When the card is open, he is sitting outdoors in a horse-drawn sleigh, wearing a white fur coat. When the... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card given by a mail carrier to a patron. An old fashioned horse-drawn buggy is paused at a mailbox on a rural road. This image is within a wreath ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Inside of holiday card depicting a family tree. The family photographs are positioned over a pine tree covered with snow. At the bottom is a cartoon of San... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from the "Chemical Warfare Service, United States Army, Edgewood Arsenal, MD. December 25th, 1918." Their logo appears above the text. The Ame... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with three African Americans, two men and a baby. Inside of a black and white border, on a black background, the people appear in the lower le... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of a window, looking outward from the inside of a house. On the sill is an American Eagle on a Federal Shield over a swag of holly and ribbon,... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Holiday card for the 42d Rainbow Division. On a light green background is an illustration at an angle of a soldier, a church and a red, yellow and blue rai... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day postcard with two women peering out of the doorway of a building looking at two Cupids with a donkey that is refusing to move. One woman is... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from a parent to a son. It has a gold and brown outer border, with the middle border made of holly and the inner border of gold. Within the in... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from the Committee to Defend the Conspiracy. The front is a picture of seven defendants that were under indictment for criminal conspiracy dur... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Eight page holiday card. The inside four pages are shorter and narrower, jogged to the top. Four views are shown. On the front is a "Boss," sitting at his ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A patriotic holiday card with the Statue of Liberty at the top with a wreath of holly behind her. She is standing on a red and blue bordered box that has t... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with a little girl in a red outfit gazing at at bird in a tree. She is standing on a path with grass all around. There is an ornate b... |
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