Santa on a donkey with children, Merry Christmas postcard – Antique Print
(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 vintage postcard of Santa on a donkey with children, Merry Christmas postcard. 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. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Santa on a donkey with children, Merry Christmas postcard
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Santa Claus riding a donkey while a group of children gathers around him makes this card an unusual variation on the usual sleigh-and-reindeer scene. Holiday postcards like this one were widely mailed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when printers produced large runs of color-lithographed cards with greetings for Christmas. Images of Santa were still being standardized then, and artists often mixed folk customs and everyday rural scenes into the figure, so the donkey reflects the wider tradition of Santa arriving on a variety of animals and vehicles. Such cards are worth noticing for the way they show how Christmas imagery was shaped by commercial printing.
| Original scan | 646 × 1,000 px |
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| Reference | 100 (28) |
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