Christmas Cards from the Knobbs Vintage Greeting Card Collection

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Created by: Pickler Memorial Library, Special Collections & University Archives

Last Updated: 2026-01-15

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These Christmas cards were donated to Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives by former Truman State University professor and archivist Pauline Dingle Knobbs. For more information about the Knobbs Vintage Greeting Card Collection, see the https://manuscripts.truman.edu/repositories/2/resources/86.

Total items: 18
Creator: Pickler Memorial Library, Special Collections & University Archives
Knobbs, Pauline Dingle
Contributor: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Identifier: vital:6195

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11. "Here's Wishing You Merry Christmas"

Description:: Christmas postcard with red poinsettias and depiction of a house in snow with gold lettering; to Mrs. F. M. Anderson from Elizabeth; postmarked December 23, 1912.
Subject:: Postcards and Christmas cards
Creator:
Contributor:: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections, University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Language:: en
Date Created:: 1912-12-23
Resource Type:: Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:: vital:6229

12. "May Christmas blessings..."

Description:: Christmas postcard with holly leaves and berries surrounding a short poem; addressed to Mrs. F M Anderson from Alma; postmarked December 23, 1911.
Subject:: Postcards and Christmas cards
Creator:
Contributor:: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections, University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Publisher:: F.A. Owen Pub. Co.
Language:: en
Date Created:: 1911-12-23
Resource Type:: Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:: vital:6223

13. "My Christmas Greetings"

Description:: Christmas postcard with holly leaves, berries, and a purple border; addressed to Mrs. Fannie Anderson from A. Austin; postmarked December 20, 1910.
Subject:: Postcards and Christmas cards
Creator:
Publisher:: M.T. Sheahan
Language:: en
Date Created:: 1910-12-10
Resource Type:: Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:: vital:6215

14. "My Christmas Wish"

Description:: Christmas postcard with a winter scene, holly leaves and berries, and a poem; to Mrs. F. M. Anderson; postmarked December 23, 1912.
Subject:: Postcards and Christmas cards
Creator:
Contributor:: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections, University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Language:: en
Date Created:: 1912-12-23
Resource Type:: Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:: vital:6222

15. "Old names..."

Description:: Christmas postcard with a poem outlined by holy leaves and berries; to Mrs. T. L. Anderson from Maggie.
Subject:: Postcards and Christmas cards
Creator:
Contributor:: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections, University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Language:: en
Resource Type:: Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:: vital:6209

16. "The same old wish..."

Description:: Christmas postcard with holly leaves and berries in white with decorative border; postmarked 1912 to Mrs. Fannie Anderson.
Subject:: Postcards and Christmas cards
Creator:
Contributor:: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections, University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Publisher:: J.J. Marks, N.Y.
Language:: en
Date Created:: 1912
Resource Type:: Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:: vital:6211

17. "We bring the old, yet ever new..."

Description:: White card with black lettering and black outline of a house; from Rev. and Mrs. J.W. Anderson, 1935.
Subject:: Christmas cards
Creator:
Contributor:: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections, University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Language:: en
Date Created:: 1935
Resource Type:: Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:: vital:6224

18. “To the Giver of all blessings..."

Description:: White card with boarder of corn around a poem; to Mrs. Fannie Anderson from "your Northside Neighbor."
Subject:: Postcards and Christmas cards
Creator:
Contributor:: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections, University Archives (Owner, Digitizing Technician)
Publisher:: F.A. Owen Pub. Co.
Language:: en
Resource Type:: Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:: vital:6225

Christmas Cards from the Knobbs Vintage Greeting Card Collection

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