Children with sleigh and Christmas tree, Christmas Greetings card – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This historic image of Children with sleigh and Christmas tree, Christmas Greetings card brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. 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.
Children with sleigh and Christmas tree, Christmas Greetings card
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Children hauling a sleigh with a Christmas tree lashed to it make this card an unusual take on the holiday scene. Most greeting cards from the period leaned on snow-covered villages, robins or Santa Claus, so the focus on working children and a tree being carried home offers a more domestic, everyday view of the season. Holiday cards like this were popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when mass-produced printing made sending seasonal wishes affordable for ordinary families. Look closely at how the printed scene is framed and the sentiment written around it, since these details show how Christmas was being presented to the public at the time.
| Original scan | 1,128 × 696 px |
|---|---|
| Reference | 100 (172) |
More from the Christmas collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
![[Sentimental Christmas scenes of children and trees: 2 small girls in nightgowns looking at decorated tree; dolls, chair and carriage]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d4/d416e239540d-400.webp)
![Koo children, Christmas tree, [1919]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7b/7bc8afd8cd71-400.webp)
![Koo children, Christmas tree, [1919]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/bf/bf70c22e0ee2-400.webp)