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Christmas Mail

Date: 10 12 1944
Description: Fred Boyle, clerk at the post office, looks overwhelmed surrounded by a mountain of Christmas parcels to be sorted for shipment overseas to men and women i...
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Crysteel Electric Range Display

Date: 12 03 1926
Description: Crysteel Electric Range (stove) display at Park Hotel with mannequin and Santa Claus.
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Mother and Children Wrapping Christmas Bread

Date: 12 05 1956
Description: Joan Meyer, 701 Baltzell Street, wrapping loaves of Christmas bread. Watching are children Donnie Meyer, 5, and Mary Jane Meyer, 4.
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Rosamond Doran Frosting Christmas Bread

Date: 12 05 1956
Description: Rosamond Doran, 4117 Yuma Drive, frosting a loaf of Christmas bread in her kitchen.
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Iola Kreamer displaying Christmas Baking

Date: 12 05 1956
Description: Iola Kreamer, 306 East Sunset Court, Shorewood Hills, displaying a sample of her Christmas baking, including cookies, candies, and fruit cakes.
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Christmas Mail

Date: 10 12 1944
Description: Clerk at the post office sorting Christmas parcels to be shiped overseas to men and women in service.
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Greetings To You

Date: 1939
Description: Holiday card with a snow man and snow woman on it. He is wearing a scarf and top hat and has black buttons. She is wearing a bonnet and apron and is holdin...
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Tuberculosis Association Christmas Seals

Date: 11 09 1953
Description: Gretchen Holt writes a check for Christmas seals she received in the mail.
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Christmas Customs

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: Hannah Heegaard-Jensen demonstrates a Christmas tradition by frying ableskivers on Christmas Eve.
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Christmas at the Kruegers

Date: 1940
Description: The Edgar Krueger family sitting on the floor in front of the Christmas tree. From left to right: Edgar, Robert, Shirley, and Elna Krueger. Several of the ...
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Family Style Christmas Dinner

Date: 12 22 1960
Description: Group portrait of several people sitting or standing around a table with a meal displayed on it. All the women, and one man, are folding their hands as if ...
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Local Homemakers Making Holiday Preparations

Date: 12 02 1958
Description: Margaret Stephan making a batch of her favorite "Almond Crisps" cookies.
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Grandma Bayles rolling out Christmas cookies in the farm kitchen with Ann Denise, 3, and baby Gale, 5 months, nearby. One in a series of images depicting C...

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