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Rare Books and Special Collections Greeting Card Collection
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Christmas cards

Series consists of Christmas cards as well as some New Year's greeting cards produced between approximately 1920 and 1989. Many cards come from universities and cultural institutions. Greeting companies like Hallmark and Carleton Cards are represented later on chronologically in the series. Many cards during the 1940s reflect various international aid efforts.

Christmas cards, 1940s

Subseries consists of 109 Christmas and New Years cards printed during the 1940s. Many feature people and family scenes. Also includes one booklet entitled "The House by the side of the Road" (Sam Walter Foss). Some cards produced by aid organizations such as American Relief for France, Fighting French Relief Committee, United Yugoslav Relief Fund, and the Greek War Relief Association.

Christmas cards, 1950s

Subseries consists of 120 Christmas and New Years cards produced during the 1950s. Many feature scenes of people or families as well as art reproductions. A number of cards are produced by universities or cultural organizations, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Universitas Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, and the William Morris Society.

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