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Merry Christmas

Date: 1944
Description: Holiday card with a nautical theme. An open porthole is centered inside a border made of rope with knots in the corners. An anchor is tied to the rope end....
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Merry Christmas Greeting Card

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Description: Woodcut illustration of four people snowshoeing through the woods at night. There are stars in the sky. One person is pulling a cut pine tree, and another ...
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Holiday Card for a Lumber Company

Date: 1915
Description: Holiday Card for B. Heinemann Lumber Co., Wausau, Wisconsin. Text appears in geometric shapes with holly and a red bow behind them. Thermography, red, gree...
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Liberace Christmas Card

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Description: Custom holiday card for the entertainer Liberace. On the outside front and back are two wreaths of piano keys, with holly, ribbons and his signature candel...
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Black Christmas

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Description: Holiday card of an African American child standing next to a snowman. The child is wearing a jacket, snow pants, boots, stocking cap and earmuffs. The snow...
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Santa Claus with Candy Cane

Date: 1962
Description: Holiday card with Santa Claus holding a candy cane, surrounded by many symbols of the season: angels, stars, candles, birds, stockings, ornaments, gifts, b...
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Monona Grove High School Students

Date: 12 10 1956
Description: Monona Grove High School students, David Thuesen and Gene Kleinsmith, making Christmas decorations and cards.
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Holiday Card With Animals Dancing

Date: 1969
Description: Holiday card with three couples of animals dancing; two bears, a seal and a beaver, a fox and a rabbit. They are on a snowbank overlooking the sea with the...
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Christmas 1952

Date: 1952
Description: Holiday card with a scene of a village in New Mexico. Adobe dwellings with hills, fences, a ladder, trees and a burro can be seen in the background. Six fi...
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Joy, Peace, Health, Happiness and Good Will

Date: 1942
Description: Holiday card with an atomic bomb exploding with "Joy, Peace, Health, Happiness and Good Will" flying out of it. Below is the verse: "The atom bomb brings g...
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Family Posing in Front of Fireplace

Date: 12 11 1954
Description: A couple with their young daughter posing in front of a home fireplace to take a photograph for their Christmas Card.
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Hello

Date: 1944
Description: Die cut holiday card. Front is dark blue, and four die cut areas allow red and white stripes on the inside of the card to show through to create the letter...
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Merry Christmas

Date: 1989
Description: Photographic holiday card from Tommy Thompson and family, governor of Wisconsin, 1987-2001. The card is a color image of Mr. Thompson, his wife, daughters,...
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Holiday Greetings from Our House to Yours

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Description: Photographic holiday card of the C.J. Schroepfer family. All the boys are wearing white shirts, dark pants and bow ties or neckties. The little girl is wea...
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A Merry Christmas Invitation

Date: 1885
Description: A die cut holiday card that has moving parts. When the string at the bottom is pulled, pictures of children appear and disappear. The image is of a decorat...
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Seasons Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card with two carolers, one violin player and a woman carrying a boar's head on a platter. In the background is a decorative gold fence over black....
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Yuletide Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: Photographic holiday card featuring Carl Marty of the Northernaire Resort in Three Lakes, Wisconsin. He is famous for his hospitality and his "animal frien...
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Christmas Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with a white and metallic gold border depicting Santa Claus handing a doll to a girl as a boy is looking on from the background. The child...
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Hearty Christmas Greetings from Chemical Warfare Service

Date: 1918
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...
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Greetings To You

Date: 1939
Description: Holiday card with a snow man and snow woman on it. He is wearing a scarf and top hat and has black buttons. She is wearing a bonnet and apron and is holdin...

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