[Christmas in a home for the poor] – Vintage Print
![[Christmas in a home for the poor], [1876] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a3/a3e914f2b7b0-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
Step back in time with [Christmas in a home for the poor], an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Christmas in a home for the poor]
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This wood engraving shows a Christmas scene in a home for the poor, a subject that Harper's Weekly and other illustrated papers of the 1870s often used to draw readers' attention to charity during the holidays. Wood engraving was the main way newspapers and weeklies reproduced drawings before halftone photography became common, so the image reflects the work of an artist who drew the scene and an engraver who cut it into a block for printing. Its appearance in a national weekly suggests it was meant to prompt sympathy and giving among middle-class readers. Looking closely at the details of the room and the people in it shows how such pictures presented poverty and seasonal kindness to the public of the period.
| Created / published | [1876] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly (1876). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Charity; Holidays; Poor; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,157 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-127254 |
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