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Christmas Seals Sparked By Danish Clerk and Delaware Red Cross
Danish postal worker Holboell and American Emily P Bissell helped launch the Christmas seal idea to fund tuberculosis relief. The effort began in 1904 with a Danish initiative and expanded through the Delaware Red Cross and national support. By 1930 the program raised millions and halved TB deaths, spreading across the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Boell
Emily PL
Bissett
Oman
Ykinac Tothoell
Copenhagen
Denmark
Postal Service
Postal
de- Parmeny
Christian IX
Holboett
Louise
Holboell
Charlotten Zund
Einar Holboell
National Tuberculosis Association
Philadelphia
Wilmington
The
Delaware
Red Cross
Delaware Red Cross
North American Haliding
Star
Tere Mies
Dissell
Rede
Jacob Tay
Downstair
E. A. van Vatkenure
Wanamaker’s
North American
Page One
Con Rim
Seulae Delphia
Phildelphia
Jacob Riis
Pennsylvania
National Red Cross
Ing
Washington
Roosevelt
Root
Taft
Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
MTHS
Ned Cross
Bissell
Miss Bissell
Weaterm Newspaper Union