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| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Cover of "The Chicago Seed," an underground newspaper, featuring Santa Claus crucified on a dollar sign. The landscape below is made from collaged advertis... |
| Date: | 12 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster commissioned by Community Service Radio Inc., WLVE, based in Baraboo and Madison and by Newsradio WIBU based in Poynette. Features a cartoon of Sant... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | An engraving depicting a formally dressed family gathered around a Christmas tree, which is lit with candles. |
| Date: | 12 02 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the Union Gallery and Crafts Committee Holiday Art Sale, held in the Main Lounge of the Memorial Union. A caricatured Santa is illustrat... |
| Date: | 11 27 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the Wisconsin Ballet Company's performance of the Nutcracker, held at James Madison Memorial High School. Six dancing, abstract figures ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 51, "Liberty Bell." The poster features the Liberty Bell ringing against a backdrop of holly and other Christmas decorations. On the ri... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the 1972 Peace Festival at St. John's Lutheran Church. The information on the poster is written within a peace symbol and features the C... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Holiday card. In the center are 4 choir girls singing, holding hymnals, and one girl playing the violin. They are all wearing white robes. In the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with six brownies depicting six different nationalities. One brownie is playing a trumpet, and another brownie is playing an upright bass fidd... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard of Santa Claus with a walking stick, and a little girl. Santa is wearing a long red fur-trimmed coat and a red hat, and is carrying a sack... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard of Santa Claus and one of his reindeer encircled by a collar studded with holly, and jingle bells that have smiling faces on them. Santa i... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard of two children. The boy is tooting a horn and the girl is playing a drum. They are both wearing folded paper sailor hats, and the boy wea... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard of Santa Claus inside of an upside down horseshoe. He has his finger alongside his nose and is wearing a red suit and hat with blue trim. ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Die cut holiday card in the shape of a bell with a string attached at top as an advertisement for the Bank of Madison to "Join the Christmas Club" so you c... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a castle, trees, pine trees with snow and three male figures in medieval style costumes playing musical instruments. Black, red and green... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with three children singing. They are sharing a songbook and a long striped scarf. Pine boughs, two candles, holly, two birds and a rectangula... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with three carolers singing in front of a snow-covered house. One caroler holds a lantern and they are dressed in Old English clothing style. ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of a stylized caroler holding a songbook and a wreath. Her scarf is blowing in the wind. The text "Holiday Greetings" appears in a sign in the... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of a man and a woman standing on either side of a musical hand cart. They are in front of an industrial building with a large window, and snow... |
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