Christmas Club
date: label: date made
content: 1940
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Flat, rectangular, celluloid card advertising the West Springfield Trust Co. Christmas Club. Yellow with black and red print, it carries the Christmas Club emblem, a black square with red and green holly in the center of card. This square contains information that reminds holders to make Christmas Club payments. In red and green print on back is a calendar for 1940.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Christmas Clubs are savings plans in which bank customers make scheduled deposits throughout the year into a Christmas account and received the money around the holidays to shop for gifts. This card is a product of Christmas Club, A Corporation of Eaton, Pennsylvania, which sold financial institutions all of the materials they would need to create a Christmas Club.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Christmas
label: Subject
content: Banks
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Celluloid
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content: Communications
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.0611
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.0611
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calendar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.1 cm x 9.5 cm; 2 in x 3 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/16 in x 2 in x 3 11/16 in; .15875 cm x 5.08 cm x 9.36625 cm