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My Visit with Santa card front and frame cover

Card front of My Visit with Santa
My visit with Santa
Frame cover around the photograph in My Visit with Santa
Details
Photograph: Two young African American boys visit with a Santa Claus, who is a white man, has a red poinsettia on the top center and a red and white house across the bottom. Both boys have lollipops. The younger boy sits on Santa's lap. The older boy is standing and grinning at the photographer. Card front: Santa Claus flies over a snowy village in a green helicopter outfitted with skies. A blue and pink flag attached to the helicopter reads, "My Visit with Santa". Inside of the card the frame around the photograph of two young African American boys visiting with a Santa Claus, who is a white man, has a red poinsettia on the top center and a red and white house across the bottom. Both boys have lollipops. The younger boy sits on Santa's lap. The older boy is standing and grinning at the photographer.
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection
Date Published
1951
1960
Subjects
Boys
African American children
Christmas cards
Time Periods
1951-1960
Notes

No date; likely 1950s

Picture is framed in a paper card "My Visit with Santa"

Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Extent Of Original
1 photograph : black and white print ; 18 x 13 cm
Source File
umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-425.tif_comp.tif
Genres
Gelatin silver prints
Black & white photographs
Group portraits
Types
photographs
Physical Location
LaBudde Special Collections
Rights
All collection images may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent use and/or distribution in print or electronically. Please contact LaBudde Special Collections for more information.

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