The Christmas week – Historic Reproduction
(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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The Christmas week comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Christmas week
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The Christmas week" is one of a set of color lithographs issued in Philadelphia in 1863 under the title *The Slave in 1863*, copyrighted by William A. Stephens. It shows a holiday dance, a scene the record ties to Christmas and to the social life of African Americans in the period before emancipation. The print appeared in the same year the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, so its date places it in the middle of the Civil War. Viewers should read it with care, since lithographs of this kind were often made for mass audiences and can carry the assumptions and stereotypes of their time.
| Created / published | c1863. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Collecting cards 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | No. 2, no. 58. Copyright by William A. Stephens. From: Album varieties no. 3; The slave in 1863. Philadelphia, 1863. |
| Subjects | Christmas--1860-1870. African Americans--Social life--1860-1870. Slaves--United States--1860-1870. Dance--United States--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,160 × 1,455 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216628 |
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