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Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Subpoena

Date: 1939
Description: Holiday card designed to look like a subpoena. The outside has a drawing of an old fashioned English judge. Below is the text, "Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Hear Ye, ...
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A Merry Christmas

Date: 1910
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...
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Best Wishes to You in the Service

Date: 1942
Description: Holiday card with a military theme. The card has a red, white, blue and embossed border. In the center is a "V" made of a red, white and blue ribbon on the...
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Greetings from Prairie Du Sac

Date: 1910
Description: Handwriting on front reads: "Greetings from Prairie Du Sac, Wis." and "Merry Christmas". A scene of a man on the shoreline of a river with a small boat. Sw...
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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Description: Photographic holiday card from Marie and Averell Harriman. Mr. Harriman was governor of New York 1955-1958, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1943-1946, ...
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Joyeux Noel!

Date: 1918
Description: Holiday card with a soldier walking while carrying a child who is waving an American flag. The soldier is wearing a uniform and a campaign hat. Two childre...
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My Dear Little Friend

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard of holly with Santa inside of an oval gold border. He is wearing a red coat, green mittens, a fur hat and has a basket filled with toys on...
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Holiday Card with Santa, His Sleigh and a Horse

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard of Santa Claus loading his sleigh. A single white horse is hitched to the sleigh and is eating out of a nosebag. There is a gold bell on t...
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Holiday Card of Santa Claus at the Door

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card of Santa Claus knocking on a door in a hall with a brick floor. He is wearing a brown coat and hood, with a sack of toys on his back, a basket...
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Holiday Card of African American Children Eating Watermelon

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Description: Hand-painted holiday card of three African American children eating watermelon. One girl sits on the ground, a boy has a watermelon in his lap, and the sec...
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Wisha Da Merry Chris' An Da Hap' New Year!

Date: 1933
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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Holiday Card of the Committee to Defend the Conspiracy

Date: 1968
Description: Holiday card from the Committee to Defend the Conspiracy. The front is a picture of seven defendants that were under indictment for criminal conspiracy dur...
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Compliments of the Season, U.S. Mail

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card given by a mail carrier to a patron. An old fashioned horse-drawn buggy is paused at a mailbox on a rural road. This image is within a wreath ...

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