Christmas eve – Antique Print
![Christmas eve, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/22/22a1e32bf9c6-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
This historic print of Christmas eve brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Christmas eve
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Little is recorded about this print beyond its title, "Christmas Eve," and a name penciled on the mat, Hoover & Son, which appears on the shelflist card. The card gives no date, so the image has to be understood through its subject and the period in which such scenes were common. Holiday prints of this kind, often showing family gatherings, decorated rooms, or quiet winter evenings, were widely made and sold in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Christmas was becoming a fixed domestic celebration in American life. Viewers should treat the attribution to Hoover & Son as unverified.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on shelflist card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Hoover & Son. [Written in pencil on mat]. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 969 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-126412 |
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