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Hattie Fels Owen

Date: 1908
Description: Outdoor portrait of Hattie Fels Owen wearing a white suit and hat and sitting in a wicker rocking chair. She is holding a cigar in her right hand. Behind h...
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Princeton Campus Building

Date: 1908
Description: View of male students sitting on the entrance steps of a Princeton University campus building. The door and windows are arched and reflect a Collegiate Got...
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Christmas Greetings

Date: 1914
Description: Holiday card of a boy carrying a plum pudding topped with holly. He is dressed in a red, green and white medieval style costume. His hat is grey with a plu...
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A Merry Christmas

Date: 1929
Description: Holiday card with a drawing of a stylish woman dressed in a fur-trimmed coat and boots, and red hat, carrying a large striped round box with holly on the h...
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To One Who Is Very Dear

Date: 1935
Description: Holiday card of a little boy and his dog looking amazed at the candlelit Christmas tree. Figured drapes are in the background. He is wearing a green sailor...
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Holiday Card of a Boy and His Dog

Date: 1890
Description: Holiday card featuring a boy and his dog. The boy is wearing a white and blue sailor suit. The dog is sitting up and begging with a sprig of holly in his m...
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A Happy Christmas

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard of a boy and a girl, arm in arm. He is dressed in a green outfit with a green cloak with a gold lining, gold gloves and a green hat. She i...
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Greetings

Date: 1908
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...
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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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Holiday Card of a Girl and Her Dog

Date: 1890
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...
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To You

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card with a stylish woman taking a letter from her Scottie dog's mouth. She is wearing a red dress with a white bow and cuffs, and black high heels...
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Holiday Card of an African American Family

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Description: Photographic holiday card of an African American family posed over "Merry Christmas" wrapping paper in the background. Holly and bells appear overhead. Eac...
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Season's Greetings, Let's Stamp Out the Dictators!

Date: 1942
Description: Holiday card with a 10¢ War Stamp Album glued inside. The front of the card shows Uncle Sam's large shoe kicking Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito into space....
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Buddy Brown

Date: 1953
Description: Buddy Brown poses outdoors standing on a box wearing boxing gloves and trunks.
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Love's Offering

Date: 1908
Description: Valentine's Day card in the shape of a heart, with a woman in a long pink dress sitting in a meadow as the central image. She is holding a heart and flower...
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Love Be With You

Date: 1905
Description: Valentine's Day card with four die cut pieces held together with two cords. The top piece is a girl wearing a lavender dress and ballet slippers. She is ho...
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Whitney-Made Valentine with Children

Date: 1920
Description: Valentine created using a "Whitney's Valentine Material" kit. The "folder" (card) has a boy in military uniform holding a rifle. He is kissing a girl on th...
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Mink Trapping on the Wolf River

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Description: A hunter, sporting cold weather attire and thigh-high rubber boots, pulls a mink in a trap off the shoreline and on to his small, motorized, fishing boat. ...
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Ethelinda Johnston with her sister, niece, and friend

Date: 1913
Description: From left to right are Emma (Thorsen) Purchas (1862-1944), Ida Fisk, Ethelinda (Thorsen) Johnston (1856-1947) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Dorothy Purchas ...
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George Johnston of Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Date: 1892
Description: Outdoor photograph near Aberdeenshire, Scotland of probably George Johnston (1803-1893), 89-1/2-years-old, and an unknown man, possibly a brother-in-law, 7...

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