The Ghost - A Christmas Frolic – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures The Ghost - A Christmas Frolic in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Ghost - A Christmas Frolic
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A ghost is the central figure in this lighthearted piece, which pairs its eerie title character with the merry spirit of a Christmas frolic. Ghost stories were a fixture of the season in the nineteenth century, and Charles Dickens's *A Christmas Carol*, published in 1843, helped fix the idea of spirits visiting at Christmastime. Images like this one often turned that tradition toward comedy, using a ghostly figure for laughs rather than dread. The blend of the spooky and the festive is worth noticing, since it reflects how holiday entertainment of the period mixed fright with fun.
| Original scan | 3,600 × 2,992 px · prints to 12 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 07805u |
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