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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Greeting card collection, circa 1850-1982
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| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of a puppy wearing a sweater and scarf, rolling down a snow-covered hill inside of a giant snowball. In the background is the text of part of ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with Santa Claus winking. He is wearing his traditional red hat with white trim and a bell. The word "Cheerio!" is made out of candy canes and... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a winter nighttime landscape. At the bottom half of the card is a snow-covered house with two pine trees. The roof of a second house is i... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with man sitting in an easy chair in front of a fireplace. He is smoking a pipe and reading a book. There is a model sailing ship on the mantl... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Holiday card made out of wallpaper. Ivy and berries frame the message which reads: "With a paper shortage at Christmastime, Sort of makes one cross and sur... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with Santa Claus playing a piano. The background is black with a red border, and musical notes of various colors as well as the names of numer... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a snow man and woman riding in a sleigh. They are wearing coats and have a plaid blanket on their laps. He is wearing a hat with a feathe... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday greeting card of a family posed on their staircase. A father, mother, two daughters and one son are pictured. At top is the text "Gree... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a running grandfather clock on the front, and the face of the clock with pictures of the family as the hours on the inside. Holly decorat... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Photo holiday greeting card of the Brynteson family. Four portraits show the various members of the family, including a dog. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday postcard of a couple on their bikes in a driveway. Shrubs and palm trees surround them. A map of the Pacific Ocean is in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday greeting card of three children, one boy and two girls, dressed in winter clothes, holding up an enlarged postcard. On the postcard is... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a drawing of a vacation home on the front, and a picture of the family in front of their Volkswagen bus on the inside. The family has a C... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday greeting card of the Brynteson family. Three photographs show Mom, Dad and daughter. A bow and pine branches decorate the card. The te... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with the Christ child in a manger surrounded by four praying children, each of a different race, Native American, African American, Caucasian ... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with three children of different races, Asian American, Caucasian and African American, sleeping in three beds. Each has a stocking pinned to ... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with the word "PEACEFUL" embossed seven times on the front (not shown). On the inside, a photograph of a couple is glued in the center. Above ... |
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