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Swedish birthday postcard with Snoopy illustration

Rectangular postcard with cartoon of Peanuts character Snoopy dressed as a World War I flying ace piloting his doghouse while singing “JA, MA DU LEVA” (“Yes, you must live well,” a birthday greeting). Drawing by Charles Schulz, published by Hallmark Grako, Sweden, 1969.

Life jacket with Peanuts characters

Child's life jacket with zipper front, adjusting laces, and web belt, manufactured ca. 1965. Obverse is decorated with a lake scene and Peanuts characters Snoopy and Woodstock paddling a canoe.

Peanuts gang figurines

Peanuts gang figurines, undated. Program use material (PUM-11186669), 3D Objects Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

Peanuts playing cards

Peanuts playing cards with illustrations by Charles Schulz, 1975. Copyright United Feature Syndicate, Inc., 75BC103-2.

Charles Schulz and Charlie Brown

Charles Schulz (right), his drawing of the Charlie Brown character (center), and the inspiration for the character (Charlie Brown, left), ca. 1950s. Charlie Brown autobiography files, 1910–1989, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul. The photograph (by Frank Ross) appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, November 29–30, 1956, with this caption: "“The real life Charlie Brown, on left, receives a greeting from cartoon character Charlie Brown, drawn by his long time friend Charles Schulz. The flesh and blood Charlie Brown is a 26 year old bachelor of Minneapolis.”

Staff Sergeant Charles M. Schulz

United States Army portrait of staff sergeant Charles M. Schulz, ca. 1943. Charles M. Schulz Museum (via Wikimedia Commons), public domain.

Charles Schulz with a drawing of Charlie Brown

Charles Schulz with a drawing of Charlie Brown, 1956. New York World-Telegram and Sun collection, Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons). Public domain.

Schulz, Charles Monroe (1922–2000)

Charles Schulz was a cartoonist best known as the creator of Peanuts, the syndicated comic strip that featured the characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown and expanded into a franchise that included TV shows, movies, and toys. By the time of Schulz’s death, Peanuts was reaching readers in twenty-one languages across some 2,600 newspapers in seventy-five countries. Altogether, Schulz produced more than 18,000 strips over nearly fifty years.