Christmas Eve – Antique Wall Art
![Christmas Eve, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6f/6f9bc9c91c17-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
Few images capture their era like this historic print of Christmas Eve. 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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Titled simply *Christmas Eve*, this print has no recorded date, and its record links it only to a name, J. Hoover, without explaining that person's role. Without firm dating, it is best read within the broader tradition of American holiday imagery, where Christmas Eve scenes often showed families at home, with a warm hearth and gifts waiting for children. Such pictures circulated widely in illustrated magazines and greeting cards from the late nineteenth century onward, presenting the night as a quiet domestic moment rather than a public celebration.
| 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, J. Check record. not sure if I did this one right. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,243 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-126410 |
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