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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Greeting card collection, circa 1850-1982
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| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with a girl peering through a wreath of holly. Her coat, mittens, hat and boots are light blue. She has a fur muff with holly in it hangin... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with a brown terrier dog standing upright on his back feet. He is holding a dead turkey by the feet in his left paw and a basket of dead t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with an ornate design of two square frames, filled with Santa on the left and a girl on the right, and an oval frame in the middle filled ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with Santa Claus to the left of a blazing brick fireplace with three stockings hanging from the mantle. He is holding a stocking in his le... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with Santa Claus peering over the top of the roof of a house, and a chimney. He is wearing a red coat and hat with brown fur trim. Above h... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with Santa Claus, surrounded by pine boughs and candles, spilling toys and treats out of his sack. He is wearing a brown coat, mittens and... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with Santa Claus sledding down a snow-covered hill on a toboggan with a sack of toys on his back. He is wearing his traditional red hat wi... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Holiday "check." It has an ornate green and black border with the text "A Merry Christmas," "A Happy New Year" and "With the Season's Greetings" in it. A w... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with a metallic gold box across the bottom, and to the right within it are a boy and girl standing, looking at one another. The girl is dr... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with a father and mother seated in chairs watching their baby play with a ball. A decorated Christmas tree is in the background. Other toy... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Holiday card featuring a girl and her dog. The girl is wearing stockings, a red dress with a white lace collar, and black shoes. The dog is standing uprigh... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with two birds perched on an ice coated horseshoe hanging on a snow-covered tree branch. Several houses and hills are visible in the backg... |
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| Description: | Holiday card of a girl standing and holding the rope of a sled, while looking at the two gifts on it. She is wearing a green coat and hat with white fur tr... |
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| Description: | Holiday card with doves of peace holding flags from various countries over a metallic gold background. The Christmas star is overhead. The text on the insi... |
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| Description: | Christmas card from Alger Hiss to James Aronson. The front of card is a page from the Missale Pataviense, Vienna, 1512. Inside reads: "Happy New Year to Ji... |
| 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: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from President Kennedy and First Lady, Christmas. Front of card depicts the White House on a snowy day with a horse-drawn carriage making its ... |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | Christmas card from the President and Mrs. Bush, titled: "The Family Tree, Upstairs at the White House." On the front is a painting of the Bush family tree... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from President and Mrs. Eisenhower. The front has the presidential seal, printed in red and blue, gold foil stamped and embossed, attached to ... |
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