Antique Photo Print - Christmas - time. won at a turkey raffle – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Antique Photo Print - Christmas - time. won at a turkey raffle, preserved in this historic print. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. 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.
Antique Photo Print - Christmas - time. won at a turkey raffle
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What sets this picture apart is its title, which says it was won at a turkey raffle, a common holiday pastime in which people bought chances on a bird and the winner took it home for the Christmas table. Raffles like this were widely held in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, often at churches and fraternal halls, and they tied the season to neighborly gatherings as much as to gift giving. The record does not name the photographer, the sitter or the exact date, so the image is best read as a glimpse of how Christmas was observed in that period. Details of dress and setting are worth studying, since they often reveal more about an era than a caption does.
| Subjects | Historic Print Archive |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,301 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179528 |
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