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Christmas card, decorated with an image of Santa's face inside a Christmas wreath with a globe beside it, surrounded by other images of World War II-era airplanes, men manning a cannon, a bag of coffee, a grocery store with signs in the window reading "BUTTER" and "EGGS," and a logo for Three Crow Brands, reads "Season's Greeting" on either side of the wreath in red lettering, tied with a red ribbon bow on the left, inside includes a Christmas poem, decorated with images encouraging support for the war effort reading "WAR BONDS" and "WAR FUNDS," people in 19th century costume singing carrolls, anthropomorphic figures of bags of coffee marching onto a warship carrying flags that read "La Touraine [coffee]" and "KENNEDY'S], figures of men and women dancing with "thought bubbles" aove them that read HAPPY NEW YEAR" and "MERRY CHRISTMAS," other figures dragging a log across a frozen pond, and a cup of coffee with steam emanating from it that spells out "Merry Christmas Happy New Year," the poem reads "[left side] THIS CHRISTMAS 1943 / OUR HELP IS ASKED IN MANY WAYS / BUT AFTER ALL WE MUST AGREE / EACH SACRIFICE BRINGS BETTER DAYS / [right side] HERE IS A WISH THAT STILL HOLDS GOOD / AT HOME WHERE FREEDOM'S DEAR / LET'S HAVE OUR CHRISTMAS MERRY / WITH THE HOPE THAT VICTORY'S NEAR / Adriel U. Bird"
1978.19.001


