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  • Collection: Minden Hills Museum Collection

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Land deed for property purchased by Charles Boswell. Purchase was for 35 acres of Lot 4, Concession A of Minden Township.

Deed is waxed paper and has a large blue paper and wax seal affixed to the top left corner.

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One beige coloured Valentine postcard, made in Germany, featuring a boy lighting a heart of fire so that the mercury in a thermometer surrounded by flowers will rise. "To My Valentine" is written on the front.

This postcard is undated and was not…

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One beige coloured Valentine postcard, made in Germany, featuring a girl pumping red hearts from a flower covered water pump.

"Loving Greeting" is written on the front.

This postcard is undated and was not mailed.

Back of postcard reads …

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Small beige paper Christmas card which opens from the middle and features red flowers on front.

Inside is written " From Sandford to Rohda (sic)"

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Postcard featuring Santa Claus with his red suit trimmed in dark fur. He has a holly wreath looped around his arm and is standing in a brick window.

On the reverse is handwritten "To Florence / From Myra / Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a…

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Single sided greeting card featuring a coloured drawing of the three Wise Men approaching Bethlehem, and a greeting on the front.

On the back is handwritten: " To Florence & David / with best wishes / for Christmas / From Aunt Mime.

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Single sided greeting card featuring a coloured drawing of pink and white flowers and a greeting "Happy may your CHRISTMAS be" and verse on the front. Verse reads:

"May Fortune shed her sunniest ray
On you and all that come your way."

Artist?…

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Christmas card featuring a coloured drawing of a blue lady's shoe surrounded by daisies. The greeting on the front is "With loving wishes for a Happy Christmas"

The back of the card is blank and appears to have glued to tan coloured paper.

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One coloured Christmas postcard featuring a bird sitting on a holly branch in front of a winter scene of a home on a lake.

Copyright symbol at bottom left reads "STECHER LITH. CO. ROCH. N.Y."

This postcard was mailed in December of 1919 to…

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Christmas card featuring a coloured drawing of a stagecoach passing a snow covered home. The greeting on the front reads:

"May Christmas bring you much joy
And the New Year be full of happiness"

On the back of the card is a handwritten note to…

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