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A Merry Christmas

Date: 12 24 1908
Description: Christmas postcard with sprigs of mistletoe and holly intertwined on a light blue background with snow. Lightly embossed. Text on front in mrtallic gold re...
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Merry Christmas and Bright New Year

Date: 12 31 1908
Description: Christmas and New Years postcard with a Bluebird and holly on a metallic gold background. The text: "To Wish you a merry Christmas and a bright New Year" i...
Postcard

All Joy to You This Eastertide

Date: 03 23 1907
Description: Easter postcard with two rabbits, one inside a hinged and decorated Easter egg, and the other rabbit outside. They are touching noses. The egg and rabbits ...
Postcard

A Happy New Year

Date: 12 29 1914
Description: New Years postcard with a drawing of a home with trees, in the snow, near a stream. Text reads: "A Happy New Year. All good Wishes for a bright and happy N...
Postcard

Good Luck for Christmas

Date: 1907
Description: Holiday postcard that reads: "Good Luck for Christmas; Good Luck for the New Year For you and yours and Everybody you hold dear." The postcard is embellish...
Photograph

Christmas Card Images for the Edwin Stein Family

Date: 12 15 1958
Description: Composite photograph of Jimmy and Laurie Stein on a rocking horse.
Photograph

Christmas Card Images for the Edwin Stein Family

Date: 12 15 1958
Description: Santa on a reindeer rocking horse.
Photograph

Local Homemakers Making Holiday Preparations

Date: 12 02 1958
Description: Florence Tomlinson with a display of her homemade Christmas cards.
Photograph

Zerk Family Christmas Card

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Description: A holiday card featuring Lake Dunmovin on the Zerk estate. The mansion is in the background on the left. On the opposite shoreline on the right is an arche...
Postcard

Greetings from Wisconsin

Date: 07 15 1920
Description: A greeting postcard with the state seal of Wisconsin, flowers and a banner with "White Creek" imprinted on it. Text on front reads: "Greetings from Wiscons...
Postcard

Everything's Great

Date: 10 29 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Here I am at STETSONVILLE, WIS. In all the world no place like this. Everything's great and I'm feeling fine. Hope you'll write to me...
Photograph

Antique Christmas Cards

Date: 11 04 1931
Description: Four antique Christmas cards. At the top left is a copper engraved robin card, 1840. Top right is a harp and rose greeting card hand-painted in 1800. Lower...
Photograph

Hallmark Greeting Card Display

Date: 12 06 1945
Description: A display of Hallmark greeting cards, including a Life magazine article featuring Hallmark greeting cards, at an unidentified drug store in the Renn...
Photograph

Hudson Park Pharmacy

Date: 12 29 1947
Description: Hudson Park Pharmacy, 2337 Atwood Avenue, interior view of soda fountain, with a display of greeting cards and booths, and a poster for "Elsie" Borden's Ic...
Print

Minocqua Train Station

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Description: Greeting card with a winter view of the Minocqua railroad station. A child is pulling another child on a sled through the snow, and two people are meeting ...
Print

Merry Christmas Greeting Card

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Description: Woodcut illustration of four people snowshoeing through the woods at night. There are stars in the sky. One person is pulling a cut pine tree, and another ...
Photograph

Family Posing in Front of Fireplace

Date: 12 11 1954
Description: A couple with their young daughter posing in front of a home fireplace to take a photograph for their Christmas Card.
Photograph

Schumacher Building and Standard Building

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street towards two buildings. On the left is the neoclassical Schumacher Building, and on the right is oart of the Queen Anne style Stand...
Drawing

Christmas Card with Sid and Pig — Inside

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Description: Inside art and text of two-fold, copy-art Christmas card of a pig on stilts above a pool of mire, where a carpenter's level is sticking out at an angle. Ti...
Photograph

Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal worker, Eugene Hathaway, emptying a mail bag of letters onto a table for sorting crews at the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue.

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