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A Bright and Happy Christmas to You
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Holiday postcard of two children, one with blonde hair and one with brunette hair. They are in bed wearing their pajamas while emptying their Christmas stockings. On the bed lays a doll, two balls and a piece of candy. Another doll, a jester, is being pulled out of a stocking. Chromolithograph. The entire image is embossed.
1910
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WHi 79960
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