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Greeting cards.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Lipsky and Keener family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3975
Scope and content Correspondence, including one letter, dated June 16, 1977, from Mary G. Randall, concerning the untimely death of Paul A. Gottschalk (1929-1977), an Associate Professor of English at Cornell University; Cornell University Professor George Hildebrand's response, November 29, 1983, to a note of condolence regarding his wife Margaret's death; letter from Robert Zelnick, written from Parris Island while in Marine basic training, 1964. Also, David B. Lipsky's address to the graduating class of...
Dates: 1855-2012; -1977-2003 (bulk).

Murphy and Strong families holiday greeting cards

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064714870]
Identifier: 3752
Scope and content

About 100 holiday greeting cards exchanged between the Murphy and Strong families.

Dates: [ca.1909-1919].

Native American greeting card collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9250
Scope and content

Greeting cards marking birthdays, Christmas and the New Year, Valentine's Day, Fathers' Day and other events. Also postcards and publicity items from various institutions including the Museum of the American Indian. Many cards are designed with original artwork from Native American artists.

Dates: 1918-1997.

Robert Harper Murray miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 30 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065300182]
Identifier: 37-5-2518
Scope and content

Hand drawn (pen and ink) and written Christmas card from an unidentified woman named "Gertrude," incorporating the words of "The Evening Song"(stanzas 2 and 3 are variants of the usual "Evening Song") and sketches of Cornell campus. Received by Robert Harper Murray, presumably while or shortly after he was a student at Cornell.

Dates: n.d.

Valentine collection

 Collection
Identifier: 7718
Abstract

A variety of commercially produced postcards and greeting cards for the occassion of Valentine's Day, February 14. Included are clapsaddle postcards (one with a girl making a quilt reads "St. Valentine's Greeting, Woman's sphere is in the home"); three-dimensional German cards from the early 1900's; and valentines from the 1960's through 1980 saved by Gladys Coughlan, a woman in Alberta, Canada.

Dates: [ca. 1900-2004]