Twas the night before Christmas – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Twas the night before Christmas. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Twas the night before Christmas
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This Christmas Eve 1941 editorial cartoon borrows the famous opening of Clement Moore's poem to place Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the center of a holiday scene. The timing matters: Churchill had arrived in Washington only days earlier, a few weeks after Pearl Harbor and the German and Italian declarations of war on the United States. He stayed at the White House through the holidays as the two leaders planned their joint war effort, a meeting known as the Arcadia Conference. The drawing reflects how closely the public linked the two men as wartime partners at that moment.
| Created / published | 1941 Dec. 24. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Genre | Editorial cartoons American.Drawings. |
| Subjects | Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),--1882-1945. Churchill, Winston,--Sir,--1874-1965. World War, 1939-1945--Diplomacy--British--United States. Christmas--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,258 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-204711 |
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