[Christmas Card from the Seybolds]

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Photographic Christmas card from Dorothee and Elmer Seybold to Isaac Herbert Kempner with a handwritten note along the left margin that says, "May this be your Merriest Christmas" signed by the Seybolds. In the photograph, the Seybolds are wearing dark-colored Western-style costumes and posing on either side of their ranch gate. Dorothee is looking at the camera and Elmer is waving a cowboy hat, looking towards the right of the image.

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Creator: Unknown. 1948.

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Photographic Christmas card from Dorothee and Elmer Seybold to Isaac Herbert Kempner with a handwritten note along the left margin that says, "May this be your Merriest Christmas" signed by the Seybolds. In the photograph, the Seybolds are wearing dark-colored Western-style costumes and posing on either side of their ranch gate. Dorothee is looking at the camera and Elmer is waving a cowboy hat, looking towards the right of the image.

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Harris and Eliza Kempner

One of Galveston’s most iconic families, the Kempner family influenced the social and philanthropic landscape of Galveston, and its members created an expansive economic empire. This collection includes both personal papers and documentation of the family's involvement in business and industry.

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[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Dorothee and Elmer Seybold, December 27, 1948] (Letter)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Dorothee and Elmer Seybold, December 27, 1948]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to the Seybolds confronting them about sending him a Christmas card after announcing that Jewish people were not "allowed or expected" at their ranch.

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[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Dorothee and Elmer Seybold, December 27, 1948], ark:/67531/metapth1480019

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[Christmas Card from the Seybolds], photograph, 1948; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1484366/: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.

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