Family at Christmas in Monochrome
Roseliep Christmas Postcard Collection
Roseliep, Raymond
Christmas Postcards
The main scene of the card is printed in black and white. It shows a family gathered around a lighted and decorated Christmas tree. A man and woman stand to the right, with the woman holding a baby. Another child sits on the floor, and one stands by the window with a smaller sibling in their arms. The card is bordered in silver and white with red and green holly along the right side. Printed at the bottom is "A Merry Christmas."
Raymond Roseliep Collection. Finding aids for the collection can be found at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep"> http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep</a>
Date postcard was scanned:20170501
Bernhard, Hannah
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Box 4, Tab 14
Family Going to Church and Santa Claus Smoking
Roseliep Christmas Postcard Collection
Roseliep, Raymond
Christmas Postcards
Santa Claus
The main scene depicts a family of three headed up a path to go to church; the moon in shining above the trees behind it. A small rectangular inset to the bottom left shows Santa Claus smoking a pipe. The card is decorated in holly and has a band of red with white stars near the bottom; beneath that it reads "A Merry Christmas".
Raymond Roseliep Collection. Finding aids for the collection can be found at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep"> http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep</a>
Date postcard was scanned:20170502
Bernhard, Hannah
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Box 7, Tab 5
Family Greets Father Christmas
Roseliep Christmas Postcard Collection
Roseliep, Raymond
Christmas Postcards
Father Christmas
Father Christmas is in dark red with purple trim and has a basket on his back and satchel at his right side. His pointer finger on his right hand is upraised, pointing at the three figures on the right of the card. The oldest, either a teenager or young mother, is dressed in a purple dress with white apron and hat. She stands behind two young boys; one dressed in gray looks to Father Christmas, while the other, a younger blonde one dressed in green, greets him with open arms. Behind the figures is a snowy village scene. The card is bordered in purple-silver and blue with holly.
Raymond Roseliep Collection. Finding aids for the collection can be found at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep"> http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep</a>
Date postcard was scanned: 20170419
Bernhard, Hannah
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Box 3, Tab 2
Family Outside with Father Christmas in Upper Right
Roseliep Christmas Postcard Collection
Roseliep, Raymond
Christmas Postcards
Father Christmas
The card's background is textured cream/silver; in the center of the card there is a family with lantern and dog walking along a path in the woods. The moon is rising in the background. Bordering the scene are holly decorations, a bell, and an inset of Father Christmas in the upper right. "Uncle John Stolerneth" is handwritten along the top and "To wish you a merry Christmas" is printed at the bottom.
Raymond Roseliep Collection. Finding aids for the collection can be found at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep"> http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep</a>
Date postcard was scanned:20170502
Bernhard, Hannah
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Box 7, Tab 6
Family Photo with Father Christmas
Roseliep Christmas Postcard Collection
Roseliep, Raymond
Christmas Postcards
Father Christmas
Shown in grayscale, Father Christmas, a mother, and two children pose for a family photo. The little boy, holding a book, is dressed in white on the far left. Father Christmas is next, seated with a little girl in his lap, and the mother in a blouse and skirt is on the right. The walls behind them are decorated in wreaths and garlands, and they are situated on a hexagonal-patterned rug. "A Merry Xmas to All" is along the bottom.
Raymond Roseliep Collection. Finding aids for the collection can be found at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep"> http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep</a>
Date postcard was scanned: 20170419
Bernhard, Hannah
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Box 2, Tab 6
Father Christmas and Family
Roseliep Christmas Postcard Collection
Roseliep, Raymond
Christmas Postcards
Father Christmas
Father Christmas stands to the right of the card; he is wearing a long red robe, carrying a tree over his right shoulder, and holding a walking stick in his left hand. Toys, including dolls and a trumpet, hang from his belt. He is wearing a cone-shaped white hat and has a bushy white mustache and beard. To the right, an older woman holds a chalkboard over her head and opens her mouth to yell at the blond boy playing with a sword and brunette girl playing with her doll. "A Merry Christmas" is printed in the upper left.
Raymond Roseliep Collection. Finding aids for the collection can be found at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep"> http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep</a>
Date postcard was scanned: 20170419
Bernhard, Hannah
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Box 3, Tab 3
Father Christmas and People Going to Church
Roseliep Christmas Postcard Collection
Roseliep, Raymond
Christmas Postcards
Father Christmas
The card's background is gray, and the main scene shows a family walking up to the lighted church. There is an inset of Father Christmas to the left, surrounded by golden bells. There is a greeting printed along the bottom.
Raymond Roseliep Collection. Finding aids for the collection can be found at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep"> http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep</a>
Date postcard was scanned:20170502
Bernhard, Hannah
The Loras College Library rights statement is located at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/rights">http://libguides.loras.edu/special/rights</a>
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Box 7, Tab 6
Father Christmas Blows His Horn
Roseliep Christmas Postcard Collection
Roseliep, Raymond
Christmas Postcards
Father Christmas
In the right half of the card the central figure is Father Christmas. He is dressed in a billow-sleeved, button-down shimmering green coat with polished black boots. He is wearing a bowler-style black hat with yellow band and a pom on top. In his left hand is a striped stick and toys. With his right he is blowing a golden horn that's attached to a red cord around his neck. Father Christmas is announcing his arrival - a boy child to his left is running off the house's porch to greet him. On the porch stands a woman in red holding a toddler. In the background is a snow-covered village with a church. The card's border is Christmas greenery. Across the bottom "Frohliche Weihnachten" is printed with a handwritten message added.
Raymond Roseliep Collection. Finding aids for the collection can be found at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep"> http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep</a>
Date postcard was scanned: 20170419
Bernhard, Hannah
The Loras College Library rights statement is located at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/rights">http://libguides.loras.edu/special/rights</a>
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Box 2, Tab 3
Father Christmas Brings Gifts to Large Family
Roseliep Christmas Postcard Collection
Roseliep, Raymond
Christmas Postcards
Father Christmas
The card is very busy and colorful. It depicts the living room of a house, packed with children and toys. In the back left, Father Christmas in a hooded brown coat dumps a bag of fruit and various toys into the room; they trail down the side of the card and include apples, dolls, and a paint palette among other items. In the back right of the card is a small decorated Christmas tree on top of a table. Next to it, a mother holds a baby who is putting an ornament on a tree. In the center of the card, three children read on a large red chair, and two girls play at its foot. Printed in the bottom left are the words "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Compliments of H. N. Harbach, 807 Filbert St., Phila."
Raymond Roseliep Collection. Finding aids for the collection can be found at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep"> http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep</a>
Date postcard was scanned:20170424
Bernhard, Hannah
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Box 6, Tab 12
Father Christmas Looks In at Family
Roseliep Christmas Postcard Collection
Roseliep, Raymond
Christmas Postcards
Father Christmas
Father Christmas in a white and green goat and pointed red hat peers inside the window of a house at a mother and her children. He is carrying a bag of toys over his left shoulder, and his left hand is shading his eyes to look in the window. In his right hand he carries a branch, and at his feet is another bag and tree. Behind him is a figure dressed in red, carrying a basket with a white toy animal. The moon is out over the trees behind them. Father Christmas looks in at a mother dressed in blue, who has one baby dressed in white on her lap and a child in red and a white bonnet at her side. The bottom of the card reads "Best Wishes for Christmas".
Raymond Roseliep Collection. Finding aids for the collection can be found at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep"> http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep</a>
Date postcard was scanned: 20170419
Bernhard, Hannah
The Loras College Library rights statement is located at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/rights">http://libguides.loras.edu/special/rights</a>
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Box 2, Tab 4