Greeting Card Collection

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Greeting Card Collection

1920-1980

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The collection consists of greeting cards, over 95% of them Christmas cards, received from the 1920s-1980s by two Washington, D.C. families, those of Ruel Tolman and Nat Conn.;A collection of greeting cards, over 95% of them Christmas cards, received from the 1920s-1970s by two Washington, D.C. families, those of Ruel Tolman and Nat Conn. Pictorial subject matter includes the categories listed below.

2 Cubic feet (12 boxes)

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11662772

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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Conn, Nat

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Tolman, Sarah.

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Tolman, Ruel P. (Ruel Pardee), 1878-1954

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Ruel Pardee Tolman (1878-1954) was a painter, etcher, writer, and was working in a museum in Washington, D.C., during the time these cards were received. His wife Nelly Summerhill McKenzie Tolman (1877-1961), a native of North Carolina, was a miniature painter. (Both are listed in Who was Who in American Art.) They had a daughter named Sarah. From the description of Christmas and New Years cards, 1921-1935. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 261233640 Mus...