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New Year card sent by African-American composer William Grant Still (1895-1978) to Mr. Frank H. Bolner[?]. An off white piece of paper mounted on similar colour card stock, with a purple square piece of paper mounted on the right side. The purple square has a geometric border design in black and features a stave with musical notes above [LENOX AVENUE AND I / WISH YOU / A HAPPY NEW YEAR] printed in black. Behind is a printed illustration of gradient golden brown holly leaves and berries along with two perpendicular ribbon stripes printed in gold. In the bottom right corner, handwritten in black ink is [To Mr. Frank H. Bolner, / with sincere wishes / William Grant Still / Dec 28, 1937 / Los Angeles, Cal.].