Christmas – Historic Print
(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: Christmas, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful 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.
Christmas
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Holiday greeting cards from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries often carried the sentiment of the season in bright chromolithographed color, with robins, snow-dusted villages, and children in winter dress as favorite motifs. Cards like this one were sent by mail or handed out at gatherings, and their rise tracked cheaper color printing and the growing custom of sending seasonal wishes to friends and relatives who lived far away. Because the record names only the broad occasion, the card is best read as an example of that wider tradition, where small printed images carried a message of goodwill from one household to another.
| Original scan | 2,400 × 1,510 px · prints to 8 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 100 (378) |
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