The greatest Christmas gift – Vintage Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with The greatest Christmas gift, a historic drawing rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The greatest Christmas gift" is a wartime cartoon, dated to about 1943, that uses the holiday to comment on current events. American editorial cartoons of that year often turned to Christmas imagery to address the strain of a war that was far from over, with families separated, soldiers overseas, and everyday goods rationed. The record does not name the artist or publication, so the drawing's exact target is open to interpretation. Its title alone suggests a message about what people hoped for in a year when the most valuable gift was an end to the fighting, and a viewer can read the joke or appeal in that light.
| Created / published | [ca. 1943] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Genre | Cartoons (Commentary) American.Drawings. |
| Notes | (DLC/PP-1980:81.394) This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. jr / 860519. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,267 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-198979 |
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