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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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Xmas and New Year Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard of a young girl holding a bouquet of violets and surrounded by sprigs of holly. She is wearing an off-the-shoulder dress with a pink bow. ...
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Christmas Greetings From Fox Lake Wis.

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with holly, mistletoe and berries. Added on the right in glitter is the text: "Christmas Greetings from Fox Lake Wis." Chromolithograph. I...
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Christmas Greetings

Date: 1930
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...
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A Merry Christmas

Date: 1910
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 ...
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With Best Christmas Wishes

Date: 1909
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...
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A Joyful Christmas

Date: 1930
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...
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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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Christmas Greetings

Date: 1912
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...
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American Homestead Life Postcard

Date: 1910
Description: Color postcard decorated on the border with autumn-colored leaves and an American flag crest on the top, center, and a banner which reads, "American Homest...
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Girls Feeding Geese

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Description: Photographic postcard of three girls feeding corn to a flock of geese. Two girls are standing, and one girl is sitting on the left. All three girls have bo...
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Autumn Scene, Door County, Wisc.

Date: 1972
Description: A rural scene in autumn through a fence and field towards a row of trees with yellow and orange leaves.
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Fall Foliage, Door County

Date: 1952
Description: View across a field towards trees with fall color. The text on the reverse reads: "Beauty unsurpassed greets the eye of the visitor to Door County, Wiscons...
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Holy Hill — Kettle Moraine Countryside

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Description: Fall view of Holy Hill on a hilltop, and a dairy farm in the foreground. Caption reads: "Kettle Moraine Countryside, Holy Hill."
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Tobacco Warehouses

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Description: Exterior view of two tobacco warehouses. One of the buildings is almost completely ivy-covered. Caption reads: "Tobacco Warehouses, Janesville, Wis."
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We Wish You A Happy New Year

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Description: Holiday greeting postcard with an illustration of a boy and a girl holding a large wishbone decorated with holly and berries. Chromolithograph and embossed...
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A Merry Christmas

Date: 1915
Description: Holiday postcard combining wild roses, pine branches, holly and a scene of a church in the snow. The scene is in the lower right, the background is gold an...
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With Best Christmas Wishes

Date: 12 25 1908
Description: Christmas postcard, with two cats wearing bows around their necks, surrounded by holly. Their paws are on a scroll that reads: "With Best Christmas Wishes....
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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...
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Cherry Blossoms

Date: 1963
Description: Text on front reads: "Cherry Blossoms, Door County, Wisconsin." On reverse: "Thousands of acres of cherry and apple blossoms burst into bloom during the la...

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