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Descriptions of the cards:

• Cutout card depicting a little boy holding a wreath, with actual fabric woven scarf around his neck, with words "There's nothing chilly about my greeting / Merry Christmas," signed from "Alice."
• Drawing of terrier sitting attentively by hearth with stockings, captioned "Something good should come from this!" and "Christmas Greetings."
• Sheet music with lyrics "God rest ye merry gentlemen let nothing ye dismay"; below, silhouetted colonial figures sitting and standing around a table toasting with wine glasses.
• Drawing of a large carriage on a snowy evening being pulled by four horses and holding several people, labeled "Christmas and New Year Greetings."
• Red star-shaped card with elements all in white: a man with top hat and scarf standing in the center carrying a basket, a wreath, and a wrapped package; lanterns, stars, dots, and "Christmas Greetings" in jumbled letters arrayed around him.

• A festively edged mock "Warranty Deed" reading:

  Office of Register of Deeds

  State of Good Will

  Pleasure County

  I hereby certify that the within Deed was filed in this office for record on the 25th day of Dec. at 9 A.M. and was duly recorded.

  (Faux signature:) Yuletide Greetings, Register of Deeds

  Taxes for the year on all the lands described within paid this 25th day of Dec.

  (Faux signature:) Christmas Joy, County Treasurer

  Taxes paid and Transfer entered this 25th day of December

  (Faux signature:) Mary Mistletoe, County Auditor

• Detailed, fancily decorated line drawing of a knight on a horse carrying a flag with a cross on it, with a castle in the distance, labeled "Christmas Greetings" and signed "Don."
• Block print of three brightly shining candles in a window with a wreath above, in Art Nouveau style, with message "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" below the window, and labeled from "Alice and Harry Cabot" at the base.
• A puppy with a red bow around its neck and its front paws printed on an apparent pop-up flap; on the flap are the words "It's my 'pup'-pose to wish you a Merry Christmas."
• A standing 20s-era lady wearing a sleek black dress, wearing one stocking and holding the other, with the stocking box on the floor, captioned "If you can fill this better than I — go to it!" and with bold-lettered "Merry Christmas" in the background, signed "guess who?" at the bottom.
• Drawing of a man and woman driving through a snowy field among trees with houses and full moon in the background, with a fence segment labeled "Season's Greetings" in front. The car, 1930s era, is embossed and has a coppery color and sheen, and seems to be separately printed from the rest of the card and glued to it.
• Old photograph captioned "Residence Street, Miami" of a straight flat street lined with palm trees and large houses set back from the street, with message "Season's Greetings from Miami" below.

• Drawing of a crowd of women in fancy 20s-era clothes gathered around a long table piled with Christmas cards in a large store, with a sign "Christmas Cards" suspended overhead and a sign "Take Your Pick" standing on the table. Below the drawing is the message:

  Merry Christmas

  I pick 'em up and set 'em down
  I look 'em through and through,
  But there ain't a verse in this whole town
  That's good enough for you!

• A trio of standing, vaguely medieval-looking musicians, the central musician bowing a large viol resting on the ground and singing along with the left-hand musician who's holding a foldout of sheet music; the right-hand musician is playing a straight horn. Light blue background with white snowflakes. Titled "Christmas Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year" on top, printed "Alice and Harry Cabot" below the musicians.
• Block print of a top-hatted man and a woman in a red dress and bonnet walking in town with snowy steep-roofed houses, captioned "A Christmas Greeting from Charles and Flora Wilson."
• Drawing of the Three Wise Men riding on camels inside a Middle Eastern-looking decorative arched frame, with blocky buildings in the background and rays of the Star of Bethlehem emanating across the sky, captioned "Greetings of the Season."
• A squarish red block print in top center of the card, with cutout silhouettes of a bird on a wide flower and the word "Greeting" in blocky letters plus other decorative shapes, signed "Alice and Phil" in pen.

• A Christmas menu in old-fashioned lettering:

  Menu

  Keewayden Christmas, 1880

  Soup.

  Consommé

  Fish.

  Chicken Halibut

  Entrées.

  Hot Boned Turkey

  Mutton Chops, Petits Pois.

  Potatoes, à la Royale.

  Roast.

  Canvas-back Duck. Spinach.

  Partridges. Dressed Celery.

  Salad.

  Lettuce.

  Entremêts.

  Plum Pudding.

  Mince Pies.

  Ices.

  Vanilla Ice-cream.

  Orange Sherbet.

  Frozen Pudding.

  Dessert.

  [Nothing is listed under Dessert.]
   

• A snowy village-square scene with half-timbered houses and church, all with scarlet walls, with silhouetted people in foreground in 19th-century dress (top hats, bonnets, wide dresses).
• Minimal, modern-style block print of a lit red candle and candle-holder at left, with their shadows in gray extending down to the right, and part of a red disk ringed with gray behind the flame, with "Merry Christmas" in the center behind the candle.
• Block print with light red background, silhouetted tall pines in the foreground, on snowy ground printed in a bronze color, with snowy rooftops and more evergreen trees in the background, and full moon behind the tall pines in the same bronze color.
• A female skier dressed in bright colors skiing down a hill with scarf flying out behind her, the sky in background a light gold color and the snow a grayish green. Captioned "Wishing you a Merry Christmas" below, the text sloping down like the ski slope. The edges of the picture all have a similar slope as well, so the overall shape is a near-parallelogram. Signed in pen with a hard-to-decipher name.