Lydia Child Poem – Vintage Print
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Step back in time with Lydia Child Poem, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Lydia Child Poem
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Lydia Maria Child's verse "Over the River and Through the Wood" gives this picture its subject, a family journey to a grandparent's house for a holiday dinner. Child, a writer and abolitionist, first published the poem in 1844 as "A Thanksgiving Story" in her children's book *Flowers for Children*. Its sleigh ride and snowy farm scenery helped shape how many Americans pictured Thanksgiving in the nineteenth century, and the lines were later often sung as a Christmas song. Worth noticing is how a small domestic scene of travel and family became a lasting image of the holiday.
| Original scan | 1,275 × 1,650 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Lydia Child Poem |
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