Christmas Eve – Historic Print
(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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This historic photograph of Christmas Eve brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Christmas Eve
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This photograph, titled *Christmas Eve* and dated around 1901, centers on a young girl and the night before the holiday, when children in America often waited anxiously for morning and the gifts it would bring. The copyright notice in its record, credited to the Osgood Co., shows that the image was registered for commercial reproduction, a common practice for sentimental holiday scenes that circulated widely as cards and printed pictures in the early 1900s. Its catalog placement under Christmas and girls reflects how such images helped shape the familiar domestic picture of the American holiday in that decade.
| Created / published | c1901. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Copyright by Osgood Co. |
| Subjects | Christmas--1900-1910. Girls--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,692 × 3,732 px · prints to 9 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-189779 |
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